Thinking differently about mental health

Sarah Boseley's report in the Guardian about the Lancet genetic study of ADHD, which concludes in the paper that ADHD is not purely a...

When I initially read Scicurious' posting on the Guardian Science blog, I wondered whether it was a spoof. But no, there are some refe...

Felicia Wong, in a posting on the Healthy Minds. Healthy Lives. blog (the American Psychiatric Association’s online resource for mental hea...

Lesson 5 of the NIMH course curriculum on mental illness, mentioned in a previous post , looks at the problem from the diagnosed children...

Research in mental health has moved on from chemical imbalances as the cause of mental illness to circuitry dysfunction in the prefrontal co...

David Karp in his book Is it me or my meds?: Living with antidepressants talks about how one's view of oneself is at stake in taking an...

Edward Shorter, in his book, Before Prozac , rues the fact that there has been no progress in the pharmacological treatment of mood disorder...

As a follow-up to my post on Why haven't professors of psychiatry used their tenure to go up against the system that we’re in? , I suppo...

Now Nassir Ghaemi has called me a "bromidic anti-biological critic". I have reviewed his book The rise and fall of the biopsychoso...

Profile of Leon Eisenberg who died last year. I've always found some of his articles seminal eg. The social construction of the human ...

Nassir Ghaemi in his book The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model says I am an "explicit proponent of applying postmodernism to...

Tom Szasz in his new book Antipsychiatry: Quackery squared quotes my critical psychiatry website page on 'What was antipsychiatry?...

Irving Kirsch's new book The Emperor's new drugs: Exploding the antidepressant myth makes the strongest case yet for antidepressant...

An article by Bullmore et al entitled Why psychiatry can't afford to be neurophobic followed up Craddock et al's article mentioned ...

All in the Mind broadcast a programme that included a debate between Nick Craddock and Pat Bracken. It suggested there was a fierce debate ...

It may now be illegal to discrimate against critical psychiatrists following a ruling that environmentalism is a belief system (see Guardian...

Study in the BMJ looking at why antidepressant prescribing has increased suggests it may well be due to people staying on antidepressants l...

Sarah Boseley has written a Guardian article about a Compass report "A bitter pill to swallow" . The subtitle of the report is ...

Nice to have an oldfashioned radical like Rob Poole wading into the debate about postpsychiatry (see the e-letter from Robert Higgo and him...

Following the last Critical Psychiatry Network conference held in Norwich ( conference website ) there has been talk about setting up an Int...

At least Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas, advocates of postpsychiatry , have managed to get some response from mainstream psychiatry. They have ...

The prospectus for industry sponsorship and exhibition at the 18th European Congress of Psychiatry in Munich in 2010 invites applications...

According to an article in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) , "During the past 20 years, fundamental advances in the...

A New York Times interview with Nancy Andreasen , author of books, such as The broken brain . She reports what she calls the "big find...

The Observer , the Liberal Democrats and Rethink argue that four people dying each day in contact with mental health services ( Front page n...

Jammed by JAMA . Jonathan Leo used to be co-editor of the Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry journal. Even if the JAMA editor thinks h...

Dr Ian Frampton has got a busy week coming up at the 9th London International Eating Disorders conference 2009 , which explains how he'...

I still haven't got round to reading the National Dementia Strategy as I said I would. Still the BMJ editorial about it is a good read....

Rolling Stone Bitter Pill story and behind the story .

NIMH are still getting away with saying that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain without quoting any evidence. So they're a...

How can a cinema advert by Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, not mention the drug they make? By saying the real danger is counterfeit medicines...

Good series has just finished. Listen again, I would say, particularly to episode 2 Altered states and episode 5 Which way now?

Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's 4 & 11 February, BBC Two 9pm. Alzheimer's Disease Society discussion at Talking Point ...

BMJ publishes five commentaries on Doctors, patients and the drug industry . Copy of editor's choice page from print journal.

Phil Barker's review of my edited book Critical Psychiatry has provoked me to reply . Comments please.

Emma Dent from HSJ's version of dementia strategy . Good to point out that programme of support and counselling at diagnosis can be help...

Health Service Journal version . Are clinics the best way forward? Shouldn't people with dementia be seen at home? Isn't this the hi...

GlaxoSmithKline to slash 6,000 jobs . Competition from generic manufacturers and doubts about company pipelines are posing a serious threat ...

Health secretary Alan Johnson will unveil the national dementia strategy this week . The government's aim is to raise the profile of dem...

An offshoot blog has been created.

Another story about an animal (this time a dog) being treated for depression. This time the problem is unpredictable depression that caused...

Telegraph story - Parrot is taking Prozac for depression following the death of its owner . Actually it's not Prozac (fluoxetine), prob...

Guess who's registered the internet domain preventsuicide.com. It's Ferguson Safety Products . Aren't the models sterotypes? I ...

Story from the Independent - R D Laing: The celebrity shrink who put the psychedelia into psychiatry Read Bob Mullan's biography

Not this one but try: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look Advances in the history of psychology Pha...

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