Thinking differently about mental health

The blog entry by Thomas Insel, NIMH director, has created much comment (eg. New Scientist article and blog post by Phil Thomas). I...

THE RADICAL CAUCUS HAS MANY IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES THIS YEAR, AND OUR COLLEAGUES FROM THE CRITICAL PSYCHIATRY NETWORK WILL BE JOINING US. ...

I've mentioned before the apparent fun people have at NEI congresses (see previous post ). The latest video from neipsychopharm gives a...

Leaders of British academic social psychiatry argue in BJPsych editorial that the rules regulating research and the dominant neurobiolog...

Jeremy Laurance in The Independent says that a study led by Hugh Gurling has opened up the prospect of so-called personalised treatment ...

Results of OCTET study comparing use of S17 leave and CTO has been published (see paper ). The rate of readmission was not reduced by CTO ...

Article describes patient online reporting of antidepressant discontinuation problems. Persistent post-withdrawal symptoms after 6 weeks...

Frank Bruno has spoken to the minister for care services about his treatment by mental health services last year (see EDP report ). He ha...

Adrian Preda in a rapid response to the debate about whether antidepressants are over-prescribed, which I have mentioned previously (eg. ...

In a rapid response to the BMJ debate I mentioned in my  previous post , Philip Gaskell has highlighted the problem of discontinuation o...

The BMJ has published a head-to-head about whether antidepressants are overpr escribed, with Des Spence saying Yes and Ian Reid saying N...

Following the special article in the British Journal of Psychiatry (see previous post ),  the Critical Psychiatry Network has organised a...

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...