The site is designed to serve as a resource and a community for those interested in rethinking psychiatric care in the United States and abroad. We want to provide readers with news, personal stories, access to source documents, and the informed writings of bloggers that will further this enterprise. The bloggers on this site include people with lived experience, peer specialists, psychiatrists, p
sychologists, social workers, program managers, social activists, attorneys, and journalists. While their opinions naturally vary, they share a belief that our current system of psychiatric care needs to be vastly improved, and, many would argue, transformed. We welcome feedback and op-ed submissions from our readers.
–Robert Whitaker
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Community Standards
At Mad in America, we are committed to maintaining a space for dialogue about rethinking psychiatric care that is rich with a diversity of voices and experiences. For this reason, we have an in-depth comment moderation policy on our website (see here: https://www.madinamerica.com/posting-guidelines/). We realize that many conversations happen off our website and occur in comments on our page. Consistent with best practices for non-profit social media management, we are now actively extending our commitment to moderate discussion occurring on our page. This means that comments on Facebook posts by and on our page will now be deleted or hidden if they are not consistent with our posting guidelines. In particular, we will, to the best of our ability, remove all forms of hate speech that make disparaging assertions based on a person’s identities or occupation, and calls for violence against any people. *Comments violating hate speech policies will be immediately deleted and user may be banned.*
When commenting on Mad in America's page please keep these guidelines in mind. This includes refraining from posting personal attacks, threats, spamming, misrepresentations of oneself or others, illegal material, profanity, hate speech, disparaging assertions about a person’s character, discrimination based on a person’s identity or occupation, and calls for violence against any people. We ask for good faith and the benefit of the doubt in our effort to allow anybody who wants to join the dialogue to do so without fear of abuse. Please respond to and criticize ideas, not character. This website intentionally brings together individuals with varying backgrounds and values. We believe civil, inclusive dialogue to be crucial to finding solutions to our current paradigm of mental health care. Remain relevant to the present article/topic. Off-topic comments are disruptive and derail the discussion. These may be removed by the moderator. Please see https://www.madinamerica.com/posting-guidelines/ for all guidelines.
