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We publish the article by Dr. Ludovica Turchetti, speech therapist, on the devastating phenomenon that is becoming increasingly popular in recent years and which concerns the various psychiatric diagnoses in children.

Almost every week we can read articles in the media where it is said that a person has found self-understanding about his ADHD or autism diagnosis. With this, they are able to accept their specialness and understand the reasons why they are a certain way. But what is that self-understanding that diagnoses give?

The Swedish Medical Products Agency finds that Charlotte Borg Skoglund can no longer be an expert in the Agency's Scientific Council. This follows the Agency's review of Borg Skoglund's conflicts of interest.

This book brings together different genres of literature such as essay, memoir, diary, chronicle, poetry, manual, manifesto and decalogue. The book uses these various non-fiction literary styles to present reason, sanity, and coherence as a system of oppression that privileges sane people. From there "cuerdismo" is derived.

Psychiatry, of all the medical specialities, is the one which is supposed to hold wisdom when it comes to human behaviour, but there is none so blind as those who fail to see themselves. Unfortunately, psychiatry has always harboured those who crave power.

In the coming months, Mad in Brasil will publish a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche's book, Manual of Critical Psychiatry. In this blog, he discusses the lack of evidence of benefit and evidence of harm for psychosis drugs used in early intervention or first-episode psychosis. Every fortnight, a new section of the book will be published and all chapters are archived here .

“Disturbed” I feel, seeing not just a woman but a “person”. Acceptance is important If not, equality remains, remains an empty word.

The chemical imbalance theory of depression – what was once considered the gold standard reason for why people take antidepressants, was, apparently, ‘a figure of speech’.

"I am slowly but surely learning to remove the extra weight in my suitcase. Courageous and strong work is what my psychologist calls it, I agree. I'm a mess of emotions, but I agree, I'm brave and strong."

I am a "cloud catcher" because if I hadn't had the dream of imagining myself "different", I wouldn't have survived. I remember the words of a doctor who said: “Everyone is born only if dreamed”. And so I did.