Thinking differently about mental health

Oh dear! - in an eletter in response to the article that I keep mentioning about paradigm shift in psychiatry (eg. see  previous post ), ...

Peter Kinderman and Sam Thompson, in an eletter  in response to the article I mentioned in a previous post , suggest replacing psychiatri...

Following up my previous post about IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), I  have looked at the evaluation by Glenys Parry...

Interesting paper  on Adolf Meyer, about whom I have published, linking his psychobiological ideas with critical psychiatry (eg. see artic...

The chief executive of the NHS in a foreword to a report on the 3 year review of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) (see ...

I have mentioned the book Psychiatry in dissent in a previous entry . Vivek Datta echoes this book in the title of  his  eletter posted ...

Special article , with my name (see my book chapter on need for paradigm shift in psychiatry) as one of the 29 authors (first author Pa...

Recent  article in The Lancet makes reference to an article that I commented on in a previous post . It suggests that in some ways psych...

An article in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , of which one of the authors is Nassir Ghaemi (whom I have mentioned before eg. see post ),...

A comment on my previous post (as does a tweet from Jacqui Dillon) takes me to task for using the term 'schizophrenic patient'. ...

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...