Thinking differently about mental health

Huw Green in his article in Social Theory & Health mentions that Mary Boyle reluctantly adopts the word 'psychosis' as a sub...

Jeffrey Lacasse and Jonathan Leo have published an update (see new article ) on their article from 10 years ago on drug company advertise...

A comprehensive systematic review has been published in the Cochrane Library of the benefits and harms of methylphenidate (Ritalin) for chi...

Ghio et al (2015) have published a survey of attitudes of mental health workers towards early interventions in psychiatry. They admit the...

Stephan et al (2015) in two papers in The Lancet Psychiatry  entitled 'Charting the landscape of priority problems in psychiatry' ...

Joe Herbert starts well in his article on Aeon  Why we can't treat mental illness by fixing the brain? . He explains that although we ...

Max Pemberton, in   this week's Dr Max the Mind Doctor column in the Daily Mail  (see section entitled Hokum is fine by me if it work...

Hugh Middleton (who I have mentioned in a previous post ) has recently published Psychiatry reconsidered: From medical treatment to supp...

I have mentioned Susan Lamb's  Pathologist of the mind in a previous post . The book has been reviewed by Andrew Scull in the TLS (s...

I mentioned John Foot's new book  The man who closed the asylums: Franco Basaglia and the revolution in mental health care   in a previ...

I've mentioned before the unethical nature of modern psychiatry (eg. see previous post ). Robert Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove in their b...

Following my previous post , yet another article on the association between smoking and psychosis has been published in The Lancet Psyc...

I said in a previous post that it was illogical to interpret an association between cigarette smoking and psychosis as causal, but this h...

I was pleased to hear from Anna Ludvigsen that the Royal College of Psychiatrists has a scoping group to look at how to make training more...

Following my previous post , Ed Pinkney @mwproject sent a tweet asking me to elaborate on what I meant by the "need to integrate men...

There is an  article in Lancet Psychiatry about rethinking biosychosocial formulation. I think the article is a little unfair on George ...

I don't want to make a habit of commenting on trainees' articles when they get them published in Royal College of Psychiatrists...

I don't think David Taylor, Director of Pharmacy and Pathology, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust & Professor of Psyc...

I've hesitated before (see previous post ) in case I undermine an enthusiastic psychiatric trainee, who has just been successful in ge...

Alwyn Lishman (see interview in The Psychiatrist ), the author of the classic book  Organic Psychiatry ,  knows more about neuropsychiatr...

Niall Boyce has clarified in a tweet what he means in a  Lancet Psychiatry editorial about the critique of the biomedical model in psyc...

Peter Gøtzsche, who I have mentioned before (eg. see previous post ), has caused controversy at a Maudsley debate and in a BMJ Head to h...

I have been re-reading the final chapter of my edited book Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness . Next year will be 10 years since ...

A perspective in  Science by  Thomas Insel & Bruce Cuthbert should make american psychiatry fearful about the scientific credibility...

I am not sure why Ketan Jethwa has moved to a core training post in medicine from an academic psychiatry training post. Could it reflect h...

Much of Edward Shorter's recent book,  What psychiatry left out of the DSM-5: Historical mental disorders today , is, to my mind, spe...

I'm not sure if it really works, as I did in my previous post , collecting together tweets of quotes or amended quotes from a book whi...

As I have been reading it, I have been tweeting quotes or amended quotes from Pathologist of the mind: Adolf Meyer and the origins of Amer...

A  post on Slate Star Codex argues that the idea that "depression is a drop-dead simple serotonin deficiency was never taken seriousl...

Ronald Pies (whose recent book I have reviewed ) has criticised the BPS report on psychosis (see previous post ) in a Psychiatric Times ...

Useful  paper by Jordan Devylder on Adolf Meyer's psychogenic model of schizophrenia (dementia praecox), relevant to a  previous pos...