Thinking differently about mental health

Peter Breggin has a blog on Mad in America entitled " Forced 'treatment' is torture ". His blog follows that by Peter Gø...

Next May's meeting of the Association for Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry in San Diego is on "Philosophical Perspectives...

Robert Whitaker (who I have mentioned previously eg. see previous post ) has posted on the Mad in America blog about the  All party pa...

The latest paper from the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide (NCISH) published in The Lancet Psychiatry  starts from...

A new Personal View in The Lancet Psychiatry  goes overboard trying to create a taxonomy of brain circuit dysfunctions in depression and an...

An  article in Biological Psychiatry reviews evidence about the association between cannabis use and psychotic outcomes. Despite the con...

I have been struggling with a post by Vaughan Bell @vaughanbell on the Mind Hacks blog. He suggests that critical mental health writings ...

This post has been made as an appendix to the above post . I'm looking in more detail at the quotes Vaughan Bell used to try and jus...

A  BJPsych editorial this month argues that the target of psychotherapy, like pharmacotherapy, is diseased neural functioning. It does r...

Simon Wessely in a Guardian article says that psychiatry does not recognise the narrow biomedical way in which it is sometimes portraye...

It's some time since I commented on IAPT - Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, now often called Wellbeing Services (eg. see p...

Much of the focus on the two documentaries in the recent BBC  In the Mind series has been on the Stephen Fry programme The not so secret ...

I deliberately used the term "sociopsychobiological" in my previous post . This was to try and reverse the eclectic understandin...

I have been thinking about the motivation of well over 1000 signatories of an open letter to the Director General of the BBC about its co...

In the recent documentary, The not so secret life of the manic depressive: 10 years on , (see previous post ), Stephen Fry's psychiat...

There have been complaints about the coverage of mental health problems in the recent BBC series In the mind   (see open letter ) . This i...

Jim van Os makes a case for abandoning the term "schizophrenia" because of its association with suggestions that it is a distinc...

Daniel Weinberger (who I have mentioned in a previous post ) & Eugenia Radulescu (2015) have produced a note of caution about MRI b...

I have mentioned Susan Lamb before (see eg. previous post ). Her most recent article picks up Adolf Meyer's use of the term 'the ...

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...