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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
• Ode to the MSc Mad Studies – Julie Macintosh
• 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

• What to Do if a Friend Goes Mad – Donnard White
• Life at the Coal Face – Nina Bradshaw

Volume 25, Issue 4

• Prescription Abolition and the Politics of Mad Pride – Anon

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

• So what is Democratic Psychiatry? by @validconsent

Volume 25, Issue 1

• If it’s #MeToo, it can’t be #JustThem by Deborah A. Lee 

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

• Bryan Charnley: Art and the expression of schizophrenia by James Charnley & Nick Bohannon

Volume 23, Issue 4

• Two years of Mad Studies organising in the UK by Brigit McWade

Volume 23, Issue 3

• Unkindest cuts: reflections on destruction and resilience in LGBTQ community-based mental health support by Stephanie Taylor-King, Sarah Carr and Taz Edwards-White

Volume 23, Issue 2

• From Psychiatric Abuse to Psychiatric Neglect? by Helen Spandler

Volume 23, Issue 1

• Should mental health patients be forced to take medication by Sanchita Islam

Volume 22, Issue 4

• The Origins of Our Stories: Superheroes and mental health practice by Valentino Zullo

Volume 19, Issue 4

• What to do if you are sectioned: Six ideas from a survivor by Jeremy Spandler

Volume 19, Issue 3

• Broken System, Not Broken People by Michael Richmond

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

• One Step Beyond: Alternatives beyond Psychiatry: Book Review by Helen Spandler

Volume 13, Issue 1

• A Mad Summer’s Day by Rufus May
• Psychology Politics Resistance by Ian Parker

Volume 13, Issue 2

• Can the mental health system cause paranoia by Tamasin Knight
• Mary Jane by Janice Hartley

Volum13, Issue 3

• Taking Refuge? Domestic Violence, ‘Race’ and Asylum by Erica Burman

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

• The Fall of the House of Kraepelin ‘The Dialectics of Schizophrenia’ by Phil Thomas

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 

• The Cat’s Tale by Philip Thomas
• Depression, Psychiatry and the use of ECT by Pat Bracken

Volume 12, Issue 4

• Conference Calls for Survivor Workers Union 1ST UK Conference for Survivor Workers Manchester Mechanics Institute 28th February 2001

Volume 6, Issue 4

• To make an army out of illness: the history of the socialist patients’ collective, Heidelberg 1970/2  by Helen Spandler