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Volume 31, Issue 1
- Maintaining the Fidelity of Mad Studies – Lisa Archibald
- Hospital or Jail? – Lin Bigwood
- Madness, Violence and the Media – Hel Spandler
Volume 30, Issue 4
- Are we medicating the planet – Meg Allen
- Radically Rethinking Dementia ‘Care’ – Liz Bell
Volume 30, Issue 3
- Embracing schizoaffectivity through the neurodiversity paradigm – Alex Widdowson
- Not the right environment – Rachel Rowan Olive
- Mad Pride: spinning hope from fear – Tam Hart
Volume 30, Issue 2
- Not my words, not my story – Julia Buxton
- Surviving the Mental Health System – Anon
- The Bridge – Miriam Leibowitz
Volume 30, Issue 1
- Why we should support the recent NHS Strikes – Stuart Jordan
- A Psychopharmacology Fit for Mad Liberation? – Awais Aftab
- Book Review – Health Communism by Evan Sedgwick-Jell
- Too Much – Zoë Kristin
Volume 29, Issue 4
- Editorial: What’s happening in mental health services? H. Spandler
- A pathological “diagnosis-seeker” speaks out. Wren Aves
- The Politics of Mental Health Care in Trieste. Vincenzo Passante
- The Hysterixx Are Not Laughing. Slowslowzo
Volume 29, Issue 3
- The Wrong Kind of Sick – Mud
- The Psychiatrist’s Catch-22 – Lindsay-Rose Dykema
- Chemical imbalances or problems in living? You don’t decide! – H Spandler
Volume 29, Issue 2
- How my father was stolen from me – Michelle Torez
Turning Anxiety into a Weapon – A.T. Kingsmith - A Tribute to Peter Campbell
Volume 29, Issue 1
- Beyond the TERF Wars – H. Spandler
- The Well of Silence – Chris North
- No More Heroes? The Death of Alice B Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) – Meg Allen
Volume 28, Issue 4
- Arm Tickling: The mystery of subconscious selfsoothing – James Collector
- Which way is Mecca? Being a Somali Refugee in UK mental health services – Mushtag Kahin
- Mad Studies: Setting the Tone – Alex Dunedin
Volume 28, Issue 3
- Erwadi: A tragedy and its aftermath – Cynthia Stephen, J. Sanjay Kumar and Sonia Soans
This is Really Happening –Stephen McKenna Lawson and Anne E Watmough
A Tale of Guerrilla Merchandising – J. Hamilton
Volume 28, Issue 2
- Heavy Metal Therapy and ‘Anti-wellness’ – Kate Quinn
- Near Suicide: A Fragmented Diary of 7 weeks – Paul Rousseau
- Caught in a Trap – Liam Kirk
Volume 28, Issue 1
- The Merry Men of my Family – Joel Petrie
- The Paradoxes of a Newly Qualified RMN – Stephen McKenna Lawson
Volume 27, Issue 4
- Some catches of the mental health system – Andy Baxter
- Mad Fiction: who has the right to write what – Nathan Filer
- Eating at Joe’s: the shared fate of Mad lives and Black lives – Peter Barham
Volume 27, Issue 3
- Beyond the Pale – Raza Griffiths – Raza Griffiths
- An Illustrated Mind – Kathryn Watson
- “Someone for Everyone?” – Ashley Formby
Volume 27, Issue 2
- Polarised Mental Health Politics in the Coronavirus Era: Who Cares? – Dina Poursanidou
- The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan – Book review by Helen Spandler
- Beware the Emperor’s New Magic Bullet – Henry Bladon
Volume 27, Issue 1
- The lunatics are taking over the . . . means of production: 5 years of Madlove – The Vacuum Cleaner (AKA James Leadbitter)
- The Mental Health Case for Universal Basic Income – Matt Smith
Volume 26, Issue 4
- Extinction Rebellion: the movement of tipping points – Jonathan Gadsby
- Does Box Ticking Ensure Good Care? – Dieneke Hubbeling
- Psychiatry and experiences beyond consensus reality – Dave Barton
Volume 26, Issue 3
- Wonder, Intensity, Magic James Walker
- My Psychedelic Healing Experience Rust Cohle
- Introduction to Whittingham Lives Jacquie Crosby & Mick McKeown
Volume 26, Issue 2
- The best kept secret in psychiatry – Maria Grazia Turri
- A brief experience of multiplicity – Sharon Cretsinger
- An intellectual emergency in UK mental health services – Vincenzo Passante Spaccapietra
Volume 26, Issue 1
Volume 25, Issue 4
Volume 25, Issue 3
- Supporting claimants: a practical guide by Jay Watts
- Pursuing choice, not truth: debates around diagnosis in mental health by Akiko Hart – Preview article
Volume 25, Issue 2
Volume 25, Issue 1
Volume 24, Issue 4
- When the mad research the mad by Sue Phillips, Penny Stafford & Shirley Anne Collie
- Beaten with a Carrot by Ronda E. Richardson
Volume 24, Issue 3
Volume 23, Issue 4
Volume 23, Issue 3
Volume 23, Issue 2
Volume 23, Issue 1
Volume 22, Issue 4
Volume 19, Issue 4
Volume 19, Issue 3
Volume 19, Issue 2
- Declaration of Mad Independence
- Signifier Surfing – or putting a surfboard to the S1 S1 S1 waves by Alastair Kemp
- DINA’S STORY: Why I absconded from an acute ward
Volume 19, Issue 1
- No More Psychiatric Labels by Sami Timimi
- Challenging Psychiatric Coercion by Bob Sapey
- Trains, Voices, Possible Narcoplexy Onset, I the Not Necessarily Devine, A New Theory Buds? By Matilda Melbert
Volume 17, Issue 4
Volume 13, Issue 1
Volume 13, Issue 2
Volum13, Issue 3
Volume 13, Issue 4
- Believing in Bedlam. Memories of Pete Shaugnessy by friends and colleagues
- Yes Minister, but… by Rufus May and Peter Kinderman
- Destroying Hearts and Minds by Helen Spandler
Volume 12, Issue 1
Volume 12, Issue 2
- Behavioural Therapy from Hell by Adam James
- Liverpool Dockers Dispute – Better than Prosac by Pauline Bradley
- Glass Houses – an Exploration of Violence and abuse by Ian Murray
Volume 12, Issue 3
Volume 12, Issue 4
Volume 6, Issue 4