Thinking differently about mental health

I responded (follow my Twitter thread ) to Justin Garson’s (mentioned in previous post )  tweet   . What he said was:- I can’t fathom how a ...

I was hoping the new government would revisit the Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee’s report on the last government’s draft Mental Health Bil...

I've said before it's been difficult to get the message of critical/relational psychiatry accepted (see eg. previous post ). People ...

I’ve said several times (see eg. previous post ) that biomedical psychiatry wishfully thinks that primary mental illness will be shown to be...

Scientific knowledge is seen as the most respectable form of knowledge (see eg. last post ). It is based on the scientific method of reasoni...

As I’ve said before, psychiatry tends to treat people as machines (see eg. previous post ). Newtonian physics sees existence in terms of cau...

Zhang et al ( 2024 ) have published a systematic review and meta-analysis of the incidence of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms. More than ...

I’ve changed the name of this blog before (see eg. previous post ). I’m not convinced it’s really made much impact in terms of attracting mo...

Terry Lynch , who wrote a chapter for my Critical Psychiatry edited book, has posted a video  asking why doctors pay so little attention t...

I’ve mentioned before the chapter written by key members involved in the foundation of the Critical Psychiatry Network (see previous post )...

George Dawson (mentioned eg. in a previous post ) and Ronald Pies (also mentioned eg. in another  previous post ) argue in a Psychiatric Tim...

John Heaton has been mentioned in this blog before (eg. in a guest post by Miles Clapham). John wrote a chapter in my edited Critical psyc...

I mentioned before my interview with Awais Aftab (see previous post ), which has now been published as a  chapter  in his edited book Conver...

As I said in a previous post , some critics of psychotropic medication do not always seem to apply the same rigorous scepticism to side effe...

I said in a  previous post  that mainstream psychiatry ignores critical psychiatry and I seem to have been wasting my time trying to get my ...

Matthew Parris’s Times article entitled ‘Mental health industry is cheating the public’ led to some overdefensive responses from mainstream...

The government has been reported (see Guardian article ) as being prepared to slow down Mental Health Act (MHA) reform following the Care Qu...

I've mentioned before Andrew Scull's (2023) article which claims that David Rosenhan's (1973) 'On being sane in insane place...

I’ve been cautious about being too prescriptive in withdrawing people from antidepressants (see eg. previous post ). There should be more mo...

As I said in a previous post , services for neurodiversity should be based on need rather than diagnosis-led. Demand for assessment for neur...

I’ve complained before that people continue to use the term ‘anti-psychiatry’ without being clear what they mean (see eg. previous post ). T...

As Alex Ruck Keene said in his blog post , last week’s King’s Speech announced the introduction of a Mental Health bill to modernise the Men...