James Moore

Do you need your #podcast edited? Sure, #AI could probably do it for you but where’s the fun in that? Genuine human available to help get your podcast off the ground. Details here… www.jmaudio.org

A week from tomorrow is the beginning of the END of the Orange Atrocity! 🍊 💩 #voteVoteVOTE

On the MIA #podcast, Will Adams discusses trauma and contemplative practice, the delusion of separation that plagues humanity, the punitive infantilization of psychiatric patients, and how mindfulness must not be restricted to a meditation cushion. buff.ly/MohjHMl

LAST CHANCE! Join us tomorrow, October 13, at 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT, 5:00pm GMT, 6:00pm CEST for a special panel, New Possibilities: Clinicians and Voice Hearers Reimagine Support Together, hosted by @ronunger. #mentalhealth Register here: buff.ly/2iT8Lwu

We used to frown on copying and #plagiarism. We used to take it seriously. Now, we are suddenly supposed to think that it’s necessary for our future. #AI is nothing more than a regurgitation mechanism and we should counter artificial intelligence with emotional intelligence.

Recovery can therefore require more than suppressing a craving: it can involve developing new coping mechanisms, rebuilding relationships, changing one’s environment, and learning to live without the behavior that once served a psychological function.

But addiction is more than a biological process. It also has psychological and social dimensions. People may use substances or engage in compulsive behaviors to cope with trauma, loneliness, shame, anxiety, stress, or difficult environments.

Marketing GLP-1 Drugs for Addiction: Why Critics Are Skeptical By Chinedu Akpa Scientists are now investigating whether drugs such as semaglutide and tirzepatide could help treat addiction by reducing cravings and altering the brain circuits involved in reward.. buff.ly/afPunrW

On the Mad in America #podcast we are joined by forensic scientist Selma Eikelenboom. Her work is in examining the possible association between DNA variants, psychoactive medication, and acts of violence. #SSRI #antidepressants buff.ly/JgQZR3W

Lillehammer’s “Other” Olympics: The Mad in Norway International Film Festival By Arianna Astuni They come mad, from every country, their own Olympics, to change the practices of antiquated psychiatry and views on mental illness and over-medication of those deemed mentally ill. buff.ly/8PGxcB0

The New York Times Fails Our Veterans by Robert Whitaker on the Mad in America Substack NYT invents medical groups to argue against veterans, refuses to let veterans make their case for informed consent, and falsely associates them with right-wing groups. buff.ly/SRUPCym

My new blog featured by @mad-in-america.bsky.social about what we can (need) to learn from fluoxetine trials for pediatric depression in order to judge other antidepressants commonly used for children and adolescents. A more elaborated version is on my website: ploederlm.github.io/blogs/fluoxe...

Are you a nurse working in a hospital that’s using Palantir technology? Do you want to talk about how that affects your work for @motherjones.com ? Reach out on Signal at shurwitz.18–your anonymity will be protected

Patients Warn That Mental Health Surveillance Could Undermine Care. New research finds patients and nurses fear video monitoring could undermine therapeutic relationships, compromise privacy and dignity, fuel mistrust, and replace human care with #surveillance. buff.ly/1W8HS2k

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

Overmedication, Ambivalence, and Self-Blame: Studies from France, the UK, and Sweden explore prescribing patterns and how people diagnosed with personality disorders experience psychiatric medication and treatment decisions. #psychiatry #psychology buff.ly/bhvrhNv

What is the purpose of medical journals? You may be told that they exist to communicate, validate, and preserve medical knowledge. In reality, medical publishing is about earning money, saving prestige and avoiding upsetting the drug industry. buff.ly/29zsvDC

A study from Israel shows non-coercive, community-based care that minimizes psychiatric drug use is linked to lower likelihood and of readmission as well as longer times between discharge and readmission compared to traditional inpatient treatment. buff.ly/TTuK3FC

The long-awaited #ODDESSI trial - the first randomized controlled trial of Open Dialogue - has at last been published in The Lancet Psychiatry. The results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care. buff.ly/Y63ol2C

Sandra Steinberg MD reflects on the results of a large randomized controlled study of Open Dialogue (the ODDESSI trial). "I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and sustain." #OpenDialogue #RCT buff.ly/h4OziKJ

This week, three studies on alternative approaches to #depression: 💃 Salsa dancing linked to improvements in mild to moderate depression 🕺 Dance-based interventions showed clinically significant improvements 🏃 Exercise-based interventions likely reduce symptoms of depression buff.ly/B9oYjtn

How did #AI wipe out humanity? In the end it was simple, queue rage.

Alicia Martin is an Australian community pharmacist and the creator of an ingenious mobile app, TaperMate, which aims to help people with hyperbolic drug tapering and prescribed drug withdrawal. #podcast #pharmacy #antidepressants Full interview: buff.ly/VB9oM88

Google and other search providers are making it harder than ever for independent publishers to get noticed. That’s why your support is more vital than ever. Join the Mad in America community for just $20 a year or $5 a month and help us continue our mission to rethink psychiatry. buff.ly/JVdUhW8

Open Dialogue Approach Cuts Psychiatric Hospital Use in Major Trial By Jennifer Hough The ODDESSI trial, published in Lancet Psychiatry, found that people’s reported recovery, quality of life and satisfaction with services improved with OD. buff.ly/CQhqEcH

We don’t have to accept the vision of the future presented to us by gluttonous, profit at all costs techbros. #AI is ruining… #Movies, #Games, #Creative Arts, The #Environment, our #kids futures and so on. It’s not worth the price of admission. #DontBelieveTheHype

👏 This is a Paul appreciation post. 👏 On every segment about the Budget we try to discuss the wealth inequality pulling the country apart. And every time the response is distraction, division, and bashing poor. Paul’s not falling for it — and neither should you.

Dory Previn was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, and poet whose work explored her struggles with mental health, including experiences of psychosis. In October 1974, she met with neuroscientist Peter Sterling for a candid conversation about her treatment. buff.ly/o7RmAQz

More Evidence That Anti-Amyloid Alzheimer’s Drugs Are a Bust by Peter Simons on the Mad in America Substack New study “raises doubts about the true clinical utility of these drugs.” buff.ly/kWuvVxi

ADHD UK Cannot Hide the Flawed Science Behind the Diagnosis and Its Treatment By Yaakov Ophir, PhD A decades-long and often fierce scientific controversy cannot be ended by declaring that no controversy exists. buff.ly/m7OvGkH

Antidepressants: Limited Evidence, Inadequate Information, and Little Support to Stop By Richard Sears New papers challenge the evidence for long-term antidepressant treatment and highlight patients struggling to discontinue these drugs. buff.ly/t2AFkho

This is Christian Nationalism in practice: politics reframed as divine mission, with earthly outcomes subordinated to apocalyptic prophecy. It is not a private faith, but a governing worldview – from the frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

Psychologist Gail Hornstein joins us on the Mad in America #podcast to discuss her search for the meanings of #madness, from asylum artifacts and memoirs to the contemporary peer-support groups reshaping how people understand voices and visions. #psychology buff.ly/y7hkwt8

“It’s Devastated Me That I’m Not Being Listened To:” Patients Prescribed Antipsychotics Say Their Voices Aren’t Being Heard By Richard Sears buff.ly/Gqcbrkv

When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself By Ed Pigott, PhD & Jay Amsterdam Two decades of notification that NEJM’s STAR*D publications contain demonstrably false claims should expose the journal to legal consequences for knowingly allowing these claims to remain uncorrected. buff.ly/pC1a0Kt

I’m delighted to be hosting a press conference organised by MIND and Rethink later today which introduces a pioneering new way of organising mental health care proven to reduce hospital admissions & improve quality of life for patients. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Amazing, it’s only taken prescribers 30 years to understand what patients have been telling them all along. 🙄 #ssri

A reflection on the reactions to ‘The Great ADHD Myth’ documentary. Naomi Fisher and Dani Drinkwater talk to Dr Lucy Johnstone podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. He joins us to explain how Mad Studies moves from first-person knowledge to questions of sanism, psychiatric authority, and collective resistance. buff.ly/LTspzSs

Google and other search providers are making it harder than ever for independent publishers to get noticed. That’s why your support is more vital than ever. Join the Mad in America community for just $20 a year or $5 a month and help us continue our mission to rethink psychiatry. buff.ly/JVdUhW8

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/o...

Dinesh Bhugra, former chair of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, features in the #Channel4 documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?”. He recently spoke with us for the Mad in America #podcast. Listen/read here: buff.ly/VDylQY7 #adhd #channel4 #neurodiversity

Wealth inequality isn't just unfair, it's a threat. It's undermining our economy, our democracy, and our society. Tell the new PM to make fixing it a priority, starting with a wealth tax: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...

Honored to be invited as a keynote speaker at the ESSSB next week. www.conftool.pro/esssb21/inde...

Mad in America affiliate, Mad in Norway, is hosting an international film festival from September 24-26 in Lillehammer, Norway. Each week, we will feature a film. This week is CRAZYWISE a film that follows two young Americans diagnosed with “mental illness.” buff.ly/9pke1ye

Joining us on our #podcast is Dinesh Bhugra, a leading voice in social and cultural #psychiatry. He is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity at King’s College London and has served as president of the World Psychiatric Association. buff.ly/VDylQY7

Award-winning author Marianne Apostolides joins us on our #podcast for a conversation about cruel experiments, ambitious treatments, and the neuroscience metaphors that have come to define mental distress.

‘Big capital’ is at the centre of climate denial – ‘Don’t Look Up’ director

We don’t have to accept the vision of the future presented to us by gluttonous, profit at all costs techbros. #AI is ruining… #Movies, #Games, #Creative Arts, The #Environment, our #kids futures and so on. It’s not worth the price of admission. #DontBelieveTheHype