Critical psychiatry

An article in JAMA Psychiatry  reports a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial of antipsychotic medication to show that antip...

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (whose book I have recently reviewed ) has an article on ‘The identity of psychiatry and the challenge of mad a...

I've said before (eg. see previous post ) that insisting on avoiding pathologising in mental health services can be misleading. I unders...

In his letter to the editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , Gordon Parker argues for "multiple niched paradigms" in psychia...

I wrote in my book chapter :- Critical psychiatry is the name for an approach that encourages a self-critical attitude to psychiatric pr...

I've mentioned before, when discussing the Royal College of Psychiatrists' views about antidepressant discontinuation problems (se...

I’ve previously (eg. see post ) mentioned the Philadelphia Association (PA) . Its first therapeutic community was the infamous Kingsley Ha...

Plöderl et al ( 2020 ) have produced the most definitive commentary yet on whether antidepressants are associated with increased suicide r...

I'm very grateful to Brad Lewis for this guest post, following that from Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas, also on postpsychiatry (see prev...

I said in a previous post that I was not convinced that Sanneke de Haan was correct that Engel’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model does not do ...

It's a while since I've strung together tweets of quotes or amended quotes I've made from a book to summarise it (see eg. prev...

As Thomas Fuchs in his Ecology of the brain   emphasises how the entire organism is a “resonance body” for experience. For example, feelin...

The  Queen’s speech last December 2019 said work will continue to modernise and reform the Mental Health Act (MHA). This includes giving ...

I've mentioned Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas's work on postpsychiatry previously (see eg. previous post ). I'm very pleased they...

I said in a previous post that clinical psychologists may be more easily able to take an anti-reductionist position in mental health work ...

Thomas Fuchs (who I have mentioned in a previous post ) has an interesting PPP article on delusions. Delusions are failures of communica...

Anti-phlogistic physicians saw disease as fundamentally a problem of inflammation and fever. The 'original' principle of phlogisto...

Sarah Kamens’ excellent article  on post-colonialism and (anti)psychiatry shows how a discursive hierarchy in psychiatry subjugates certai...

Potkin et al ( 2020 ) argue that the underlying neurobiology of treatment-resistant schizophrenia (for which they give the acronym TRS) ma...