Thinking differently about mental health

As I mentioned in my previous post there has been a clash between Sandra Steingard and E Fuller Torrey about anosognosia in schizo...

E Fuller Torrey has upset Robert Whitaker (see Dear Dr Torrey: Please stop the lies ) because of his response to a post by Sandra Steing...

Article analyses five cases exposed by Senator Chuck Grassley of eight psychiatrists under-reporting pharmaceutical company earnings to t...

I have just attended the second day of the annual conference of the General and Community Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ...

West Australian Labor MP Martin Whitely has given a speech in the  Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia, a transcript  of...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published a leaflet with the results of a survey about coming off antidepressants, which I mentio...

One of Thomas Szasz's last papers (see previous post ) was the write-up of an invited address, presented at the Annual Meeting of the...

Dave Harper has called the inaugural meeting of the London Asylum Group at: 6.30-7.30pm Thursday 18 October Studio 2 (first floor), Ox...

Stephen Stahl, who I've mentioned in a previous post , in an editorial in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , talks about psychiatrists ...

Death notice for Thomas Szasz who died at the weekend. He contributed to critical psychiatry in the sense that he regarded the biological ...

Profile of Pat Bracken in Irish Times . Pat wrote Postpsychiatry   with Phil Thomas. Postpsychiatry is one form of critical psychiatry. ...

This post is prompted by a comment on a previous post suggesting that psychiatric diagnosis is unscientific and that formulation is a b...

I don't know what to make of Peter Tyrer, the editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry ,   saying in his latest ' From the...

The latest What's New Online from the BMJ editor draws attention to the poll on bmj.com, which asks "Is fanaticism a form of ma...

It irks me sometimes when I'm seen as an anti-psychiatrist, rather than a critical psychiatrist. After all, I make my living from bei...

Witness , on BBC World Service, last month broadcast about the Rosenhan experiment (listen to podcast ). Rosenhan died earlier this year (...

Suparna   Choudhury & Jan Slaby have published an edited collection entitled Critical neuroscience (see website ). This is a res...

The report from The Centre for Economic Performance (mentioned in my last post ) boldly states that mental illness is curable. To supp...

David Clark's comment in the Guardian is headlined to say that psychological therapies are highly effective and save money. Steady o...

I've been thinking about the motivation for the move to a remedicalised psychiatry, which I've mentioned several times previously ...

The editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry , in his latest " From the editor's desk ", has said he would not have conte...

Considering his views about psychiatry, who would believe Phil Barker has his self-portrait on the front cover of the British Journal of...

The authors of an article in Archives in General Psychiatry,  linking prematurity and admission to psychiatric hospital, are reported by ...

Peter White et al in an article in the BMJ propose that classifications of neurological and psychiatric disorders should be merged toget...

Pleased to see that psychiatric trainees are still interested in controversies in psychiatry. The Frontier psychiatrist blog has a post ...

George Dawson in a comment  on my  previous blog entry  mentioned an  article by McHugh & Slavney , which has just come out in  NEJM  ...

I thought it might be helpful to explain a little more why I think DSM-5 shouldn't go ahead. As I've said previously (eg. see earl...

The co-ordinating group of the Inquiry into the 'Schizophrenia" Label want you to visit their inquiry website . You could if you...

I went to a meeting of the radical caucus of the APA last Sunday in Philadelphia, where I was attending a conference (see previous post ...

This post is prompted by a comment on a previous entry. The question was whether psychotropic drugs are unnecessary, as people continue t...

The comment  I mentioned in the  last post  also asked how repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) works and whether it is sim...

A comment on a previous post asked me what critical psychiatry is. Perhaps I should make an attempt to provide an answer in summary form....

In his  NIMH Director's blog , Thomas Insel, who I have mentioned several times before (eg. see previous post ), has picked up on the ...

Simon Baron-Cohen in an  article in The Times  predicts that an underdeveloped empathy circuit (whatever that is!?) would be found in ...

Nigel Hawkes helpfully summarises the patent position of Seroquel in BMJ news item . It's lost its patent for the XL (prolonged relea...

I'm prompted to make this post by reading Kennneth Kendler's recent article . Of course I'm not Cartesian, but his fear of dua...

Editorial in  The Lancet  refers to  press release  from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) about recruitment to psychiatry, a sub...

Fiona Godlee, BMJ editor, in her latest Editor's Choice , is pleased to see what she calls evidence that counters claims that antidepre...