Critical psychiatry

Joanna Moncrieff comments in a tweet on Niall McLaren’s Mad in America blog , saying that the biopsychosocial model is “just a phrase us...

René  Descartes was the first to apply the natural scientific mechanistic approach to life (although excluding the soul) (see previous po...

Dear trainee Psychiatry needs doctors who are prepared to think critically. Unfortunately, it does not always make it easy for them to d...

I've mentioned the idea of the Institute of Critical Psychiatry before on my personal blog (see post ). I have partially organised an ...

David Kingdon in his BJPsych Bulletin editorial questions whether we need the Care Programme Approach (CPA). Its implementation went wro...

Vasco M Barreto defends antidepressants in his Aeon   essay . Although he may have some doubts about the serotonin theory of depression, h...

Twitter conversation  has highlighted that the reason some people object to the term 'mental illness' is because they think the te...

Twitter conversation  about the session yesterday at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) International Congress 2019 entitled &#...

The film 55 Steps  (see trailer ) starts with Eleanor Riese (played by Helena Bonham-Carter) being injected with antipsychotic medication ...

Adrian James, Registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said in his recent Radio 4 interview (see transcript ) that “we need to hav...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has been widely praised (eg. by the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEP) - see  pr...

Bonnie Burstow's chapter  entitled 'From 'bed-push' to book activism: Anti/Critical psychiatry activism' in the  Routl...

I've been asked how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is allowed to call schizophrenia a "chronic brain disorder" o...

Twitter conversation this morning (see thread leading to my tweet ) has made me realise that it may be misleading to say that people who h...

Although the Critical Psychiatry Network was formed over twenty years ago (see my editorial ), critical psychiatry remains marginal to mai...

Immanual Kant in the section on the ‘Critique of Teleological Judgement’ in his Critique of Judgement  (1790) said:- For it is quite cer...

I reviewed Ronald Pies' book Psychiatry on the Edge a few years ago (see review  and previous post) . A recent Psychiatric Times arti...

An editorial in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica asks whether the time has come to treat depression with anti-inflammatory medication. Thi...

As I said in my previous post , challenging the biomedical model of psychiatry is not anti-psychiatry. Another example of how the term ...

Lisa Cosgove and Jon Jureidini have responded (see article ) to a Debate article in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatr...

Antidepressant prescriptions dispensed in England have almost doubled since 2008 (see BBC News article ). Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of t...

Medium has a new mental health publication - ' Inspire the Mind ' - produced by the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology (SPI) Lab...

Despite me saying (eg. see previous post ) that people must be more realistic about the effectiveness of Improving Access to Psychological...

The Wellcome Trust has said it believes "a radical new approach is needed [in mental health] to drive science forward and improve peo...

I want to pick up on the way people who take a reductionist view on psychiatry, such as Ed Bullmore (see previous post ), accuse their c...