Thinking differently about mental health

Moving from an outdated physical disease model of mental illness to a more relational mental health practice

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Don't be taken in by neuropsychoanalysis

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Oh dear! - in an eletter in response to the article that I keep mentioning about paradigm shift in psychiatry (eg. see  previous post ), ...
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Clinical psychologists should take on more responsibility

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Peter Kinderman and Sam Thompson, in an eletter  in response to the article I mentioned in a previous post , suggest replacing psychiatri...
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

How to mislead people with IAPT

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Following up my previous post about IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies), I  have looked at the evaluation by Glenys Parry...
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Sunday, December 09, 2012

Turning neuroscientists into psychosocial psychiatrists

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Interesting paper  on Adolf Meyer, about whom I have published, linking his psychobiological ideas with critical psychiatry (eg. see artic...
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Saturday, December 08, 2012

IAPT propaganda truly impressive

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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 ...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Psychiatry in dissent

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I have mentioned the book Psychiatry in dissent in a previous entry . Vivek Datta echoes this book in the title of  his  eletter posted ...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

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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...
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Saturday, December 01, 2012

Defining psychiatry

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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...
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Friday, November 09, 2012

Overdiagnosing bipolar disorder

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An article in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , of which one of the authors is Nassir Ghaemi (whom I have mentioned before eg. see post ),...
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Tuesday, November 06, 2012

Is it critical to use the term 'schizophrenic patient'?

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A comment on my previous post (as does a tweet from Jacqui Dillon) takes me to task for using the term 'schizophrenic patient'. ...
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Sunday, October 28, 2012

It is not possible to diagnose anosognosia in schizophrenic patients on brain scan

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As I mentioned in my previous post there has been a clash between Sandra Steingard and E Fuller Torrey about anosognosia in schizo...
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Saturday, October 27, 2012

E Fuller Torrey attacks "The new antipsychiatry"

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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...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Stronger conflict of interest policies needed

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Article analyses five cases exposed by Senator Chuck Grassley of eight psychiatrists under-reporting pharmaceutical company earnings to t...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

The majority of psychiatrists think adult ADHD is an example of the over-medicalisation of everyday life

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I have just attended the second day of the annual conference of the General and Community Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ...
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Sunday, October 07, 2012

Driving the development of mental health services by rhetoric

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West Australian Labor MP Martin Whitely has given a speech in the  Legislative Assembly, Parliament of Western Australia, a transcript  of...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

What does it mean to say that antidepressants are not addictive?

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The Royal College of Psychiatrists has published a leaflet with the results of a survey about coming off antidepressants, which I mentio...
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Saturday, September 22, 2012

Restricting the critique of psychiatry

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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...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Inaugural meeting of London Asylum Group

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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...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

No use for brain scan in assessing psychiatric patients

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Stephen Stahl, who I've mentioned in a previous post , in an editorial in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , talks about psychiatrists ...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Defender of individual responsibility and freedom dies

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Death notice for Thomas Szasz who died at the weekend. He contributed to critical psychiatry in the sense that he regarded the biological ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Profile of a postpsychiatrist

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Profile of Pat Bracken in Irish Times . Pat wrote Postpsychiatry   with Phil Thomas. Postpsychiatry is one form of critical psychiatry. ...
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Sunday, August 05, 2012

Formulating psychiatric diagnosis

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This post is prompted by a comment on a previous post suggesting that psychiatric diagnosis is unscientific and that formulation is a b...
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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Has the psychopharmacological revolution come to an end?

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I don't know what to make of Peter Tyrer, the editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry ,   saying in his latest ' From the...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

The mind of a psychopath

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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...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

I'm not an anti-psychiatrist, or am I?

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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...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

On the validity of psychiatric diagnosis

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Witness , on BBC World Service, last month broadcast about the Rosenhan experiment (listen to podcast ). Rosenhan died earlier this year (...
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Monday, July 09, 2012

Neuroscience needs to be more critical

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Suparna   Choudhury & Jan Slaby have published an edited collection entitled Critical neuroscience (see website ). This is a res...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Is mental illness curable by CBT?

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The report from The Centre for Economic Performance (mentioned in my last post ) boldly states that mental illness is curable. To supp...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Need to be realistic about value and effectiveness of psychological therapy

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David Clark's comment in the Guardian is headlined to say that psychological therapies are highly effective and save money. Steady o...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Psychiatry is a medical speciality

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I've been thinking about the motivation for the move to a remedicalised psychiatry, which I've mentioned several times previously ...
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Sunday, June 03, 2012

The editor of British Journal of Psychiatry agrees with me

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The editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry , in his latest " From the editor's desk ", has said he would not have conte...
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Saturday, June 02, 2012

Phil Barker on front cover of British Journal of Psychiatry

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

Not surprising that premature babies have higher psychiatric risk

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The authors of an article in Archives in General Psychiatry,  linking prematurity and admission to psychiatric hospital, are reported by ...
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

The mind is indivisible from the brain

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Peter White et al in an article in the BMJ propose that classifications of neurological and psychiatric disorders should be merged toget...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Conflict in psychiatry

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Pleased to see that psychiatric trainees are still interested in controversies in psychiatry. The Frontier psychiatrist blog has a post ...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Different perspectives in psychiatry

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George Dawson in a comment  on my  previous blog entry  mentioned an  article by McHugh & Slavney , which has just come out in  NEJM  ...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Why would psychiatry be better off without a psychiatric classificatory system such as DSM?

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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...
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