Thinking differently about mental health

An article in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, giving a wake up call to European psychiatry, starts quite well:- The DSM-5 was publ...

Stuart Jessop, a patient with depression, in response to a BMJ article , says patients don't care whether antidepressants are merely...

Now there's another blog to read besides this one!

Allen Frances has clarified his position on psychiatric diagnosis in his Saving Normal series on Psychology Today (see article ). Althoug...

It's worth looking at the article by Peter Tyrer in The Psychiatrist  on community psychiatry in the context of today's report fro...

The headline for this piece is deliberately tongue in cheek. It's not supposed to imply that the introduction of community treatment o...

The Sun has been taken to task for producing the front page headline that 1200 people have been killed by mental patients in the last 10 ...

Just to reinforce my previous post , the President of the American Psychiatric Association has said that the mass shooting in the Navy Yar...

Gallup have found that 48% of Americans say that they blame the mental health system "a great deal" and 32% "a fair amount...

Tom Burns, who I have mentioned in a previous post , has written a bland apology for psychiatry, Our necessary shadow: The nature and mean...

Collection of psychiatrists' views about DSM-5 , including those of Charles Nemeroff (see previous post ) and Simon Wessely (see anoth...

This website has been given a 20% discount for the important, soon to be published book The bitterest pills by Jo Moncrieff. Order throug...

Just to reinforce my previous post , Psychiatric Times  has a video article  suggesting that the next fashion in antidepressant research w...

Move over serotonin; let's exploit glutamate in the treatment of depression. So suggests the journalist, Samantha Murphy, in a New Sci...

At least Jeffrey Lieberman is prepared to engage with criticism of psychiatry in his role as President of the American Psychiatric Associa...

Simon Wessely in his blog post  about an IOP conference on DSM-5 assumes there will be a DSM-6. Have we now come to expect co ntinuous rev...

To his credit, Norman Lamb (who I have mentioned on my personal blog eg. see previous post ), Minister of State at the Department of Healt...

Phil Thomas asks why Charles Nemeroff has been asked to give the inaugural annual lecture of the new Centre for Affective Disorders at the...

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 ...