Thinking differently about mental health

Linda Gask has an essay in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled 'In defence of the biopsychosocial model'. Progress does need to be ma...

It's touching to see Paul Salkovskis & Irene Sutcliffe apparently hankering after DSM-III in their The Mental Elf blog post . For ...

Further to my previous post about postpsychiatry, I have found that I like the view of John Iliopoulos that Foucault was not necessarily ...

As a young doctor, Ed Bullmore did not want senior physicians to start thinking he was bonkers, but now he’s long in the tooth it doesn’t ...

Akiko Hart has a MIA blog post about the interim report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (see eg. previous post ). As ...

I have been looking at some minutes from when the Critical Psychiatry Network first started meeting in January 1999. A paper was written ...

Theo Manschrek and Arthur Kleinman in their introduction to a 1977 book, Renewal in psychiatry , that I have mentioned before (see previou...

Having first reflected (if that’s the right word) in the media, Cipriani et al now reflect on their network meta-analysis (see previous ...

I’ve expressed concern before about the scientific credibility of American academic psychiatry (see previous post ). Following the recent ...

Nassir Ghaemi has published his invited commentary which was rejected for a new book on Thomas Szsaz (see article ). It's the advantag...

I responded to a BMJ review of Sami Timimi’s book Pathological child psychiatry and the medicalisation of childhood ,  when   the book f...

Because of my scepticism, I was alerted when I saw the BJPsych editorial on cannabis and psychosis, which began, “It is now incontrovert...

I’ve posted before on Institutional racism and reform of the Mental Health Act . The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recently produced...

The recent Lancet study, which was reported in the media as ending the debate about the effectiveness of antidepressants, has ironically l...

Clare Gerada defended the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the Today programme this morning against a complaint (of which I was one of ...

I sent 7 tweets yesterday in response to a tweet from @PariantSPILab (who I have mentioned previously eg. see  post ) about a Financial T...

I have blogged previously on the Power Threat Meaning (PTM) Framework (see post ). Twitter is not always the best place to discuss these...

I have been re-reading the book Postpsychiatry by Pat Bracken (see previous post with link to his profile) and Phil Thomas (see his Abou...

Hans Eysenck ( 1978 ) called meta-analysis an exercise in mega-silliness. To quote: “A mass of reports - good, bad, and indifferent - are ...

Graham Thornicroft's Lancet editorial on Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) glosses over the effectiveness of the pr...

My recent post commented on the public understanding of the concept of bipolar disorder, at least as represented by internet bloggers. As...

I attended a reading group today to discuss two quite technical papers by Georg Northoff . There is a Psychology Today blog , which make...

Mandla et al (2017)  have analysed internet blogs by self-identified bipolar sufferers. They found that most bloggers regard bipolar as c...

A few years ago, Steven Sharfstein, when he was President of the American Psychiatric Association, said that psychiatry has "allowed ...

There is a YouTube video of David Pilgrim's talk at the DCP conference last year. He only gives 'two cheers' for George Engel...