Critical psychiatry

Jean Khalfa, in his Introduction to his edited edition of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness , says that the book “has yet to be read”. ...

I went to a talk yesterday by Lisa Bortolotti in the Cambridge University Psychiatry department (see tweet ). This was based on her chapte...

The Times  had a  leading article last week that took up from its news  article the day before. It stated that "David Baldwin, a go...

Editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry helpfully calls for a “dispassionate analysis of the evidence” about psychiatric medication. It see...

James Davies in his book Cracked (see my review ), was surprised when Robert Spitzer, chair of the DSM-III task force, said no biologic...

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has an article about how to stop mass shootings (see article ). I've written before on t...

I’ve commented before on institutional corruption within psychiatry (eg. see previous post ). I’ve also pointed out how the Royal College ...

Peter Kinderman is giving a lecture at Salomons Centre in Tunbridge Wells this week entitled 'Our turbulent minds: why we’re all craz...

The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) has expressed "great concern and disappointment" in a position paper about what it...

I've commented before on corruption within psychiatry (eg. see previous post ). Dainius Pūras, the United Nations Special Rapporteur o...

In the introduction to The birth of the clinic , Michel Foucault contrasts the views of Pomme from the middle of the eighteenth century an...

Race on the Agenda (ROTA) and Race Equality Foundation (REF) have made their submission to the Mental Health Act (MHA) Review 2018. I hav...

The Mad in Asia website has recently been launched. It’s part of a global network (see links ). I’ve posted before on global mental healt...

I’ve mentioned before (see previous post ) that I signed a complaint to the Royal College of Psychiatrists about a statement made by Wendy...

The origin of the term 'critical psychiatry' was probably in an edited book Critical psychiatry: The politics of mental health  ...

Further to my previous post in which I mentioned Charles Myers, I came across a lecture he gave in 1932 entitled ‘The absurdity of any mi...

I’ve mentioned before (eg. see previous post ) that I am doing a PhD in psychology at Cambridge University. It’s probably just as well tha...

An advertisement  article in the Guardian paid for by the Royal College of Psychiatrists uses Mary-Ellen Lynall (who I've mentioned ...

Linda Gask has an essay in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled 'In defence of the biopsychosocial model'. Progress does need to be ma...

It's touching to see Paul Salkovskis & Irene Sutcliffe apparently hankering after DSM-III in their The Mental Elf blog post . For ...

Further to my previous post about postpsychiatry, I have found that I like the view of John Iliopoulous that Foucault was not necessarily...

As a young doctor, Ed Bullmore did not want senior physicians to start thinking he was bonkers, but now he’s long in the tooth it doesn’t ...

Akiko Hart has a MIA blog post about the interim report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (see eg. previous post ). As ...

I have been looking at some minutes from when the Critical Psychiatry Network first started meeting in January 1999. A paper was written ...

Theo Manschrek and Arthur Kleinman in their introduction to a 1977 book, Renewal in psychiatry , that I have mentioned before (see previou...