Thinking differently about mental health

I’ve mentioned before several times (eg. see previous post ) about the hope that neuroscience will explain mental illness. Psychiatry comm...

The stakeholder comments submission (see table ) from the College of Mental Health Pharmacy about the Scope for the NICE guideline on S...

When I first started this blog several years ago now, I indicated I would return to the issue of the National Dementia Strategy (see previ...

George Dawson (who I have mentioned previously - see post ) has responded in a blog post to a NEJM article by Caleb Gardner and Arthur K...

A post on the British Psychological Society (BPS) History of Psychology Centre blog marks 100 years since the first BPS Member Networks ...

Ketamine has been claimed to be the first truly new pharmacological approach for treating depression in the past 50 years and promoted as ...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has published its first issue of PSynapse , the newsletter for its programme  (that I've...

Rebecca Roache (who I’ve mentioned previously ) has a useful PPP article  which discusses the different forms of reductionism in relation ...

Derek Bolton is giving a series of colloquia on Engel's biopsychosocial model, based on his book  with Grant Gillett (ebook freely av...

Gemma Lewis and Glyn Lewis popularise their PANDA study (published in  The Lancet Psychiatry )  in The Conversation . The headline of th...

A tweet by Mohammed Rashed has intrigued me. He says the distinction between functional and organic mental illness is not valid, and sugg...

Joanna Moncrieff comments in a tweet on Niall McLaren’s Mad in America blog , saying that the biopsychosocial model is “just a phrase us...

René  Descartes was the first to apply the natural scientific mechanistic approach to life (although excluding the soul) (see previous po...

Dear trainee Psychiatry needs doctors who are prepared to think critically. Unfortunately, it does not always make it easy for them to d...

I've mentioned the idea of the Institute of Critical Psychiatry before on my personal blog (see post ). I have partially organised an ...

David Kingdon in his BJPsych Bulletin editorial questions whether we need the Care Programme Approach (CPA). Its implementation went wro...

Vasco M Barreto defends antidepressants in his Aeon   essay . Although he may have some doubts about the serotonin theory of depression, h...

Twitter conversation  has highlighted that the reason some people object to the term 'mental illness' is because they think the te...

Twitter conversation  about the session yesterday at the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) International Congress 2019 entitled ...

The film 55 Steps  (see trailer ) starts with Eleanor Riese (played by Helena Bonham-Carter) being injected with antipsychotic medication ...

Adrian James, Registrar at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said in his recent Radio 4 interview (see transcript ) that “we need to hav...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) has been widely praised (eg. by the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry (CEP) - see  pr...

Bonnie Burstow's chapter entitled 'From 'bed-push' to book activism: Anti/Critical psychiatry activism' in the  Routl...

I've been asked how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is allowed to call schizophrenia a "chronic brain disorder" o...

Twitter conversation this morning (see thread leading to my tweet ) has made me realise that it may be misleading to say that people who h...

Although the Critical Psychiatry Network was formed over twenty years ago (see my editorial ), critical psychiatry remains marginal to mai...