Thinking differently about mental health

A review in the Archives of General Psychiatry looks at the evidence for weight gain and changes in other cardiovascular risk factors caus...

I have mentioned a study in a previous blog entry that seemed to show that antipsychotic medication reduces brain volume. This study was re...

This post has the same title as the latest post from the Healthy Minds. Health Lives blog, my favourite for commenting on because it is pub...

Seroquel is the best-selling psychiatric medication in the US and, as pointed out in a feature in Medical Marketing and Media  (MM&M), i...

A Reuters report based on an article in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety  suggests atypical antipsychotics are overused. The article lo...

In an e-interview in The Psychiatrist , John G. Csernansky was asked what he saw as the most promising opportunity facing the psychiatric pr...

(With thanks to Adinah's post on ICSPP Discussion Group giving the link. See also her comment on another blog.)

In my previous post , I have gone on about the errors about the treatment of depression in the latest blog entry on the APA's Healthy M...

The latest blog entry from APA's Healthy. Healthy Lives., besides making the misleading statement that antidepressants work by increasi...

In my previous post , I mentioned that Thomas Insel, Director of NIMH, had noted that pharmaceutical companies are moving away from psychiat...

Thomas Insel, Director of NIMH, who I have mentioned in a previous post , has listed his top 10 research events and advances of 2010 on his ...

A New York Times article suggests that an entire psychiatric textbook was ghostwritten by a writing company funded by a drug company. Pe...

A recent article in the BMJ has shown that the data on reboxetine has not proven its effectiveness. This evidence has at least partly bee...

Robert Whitaker in his latest posting on his Mad in America blog (to which I have referred before ) elaborates on the work of Giovanna Fava...

I was not intending to be personal about the bloggers on Healthy Minds. Heathy Lives. in two of my previous postings (see link to the first ...

The psychiatrist, Gariane Phillips Gunter's, MD, latest blog on Healthy Minds. Healthy Lives. has a video of her in which she argues th...

Ben Goldacre, in an article in his Guardian Bad Science column, comments on the Lancet ADHD study (as have I in a previous post ). What h...

Robert Whitaker, in a posting on his Mad in America blog, writes about how he sometimes loses the hope that "our society will ever be ...

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'...