Thinking differently about mental health

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday that the Patient Health Questionaire (PHQ-8) scores for most people had increase...

I've said before (eg. see previous post ) that I'm keen to see how non-medical mental health services could be developed within the ...

Thomas Fuchs, who I have mentioned before (eg. see previous post ), has a useful summary (see article ) of the concept of circularity from a...

An article in JAMA Psychiatry  reports a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial of antipsychotic medication to show that antip...

Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (whose book I have recently reviewed ) has an article on ‘The identity of psychiatry and the challenge of mad a...

I've said before (eg. see previous post ) that insisting on avoiding pathologising in mental health services can be misleading. I unders...

In his letter to the editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , Gordon Parker argues for "multiple niched paradigms" in psychia...

I wrote in my book chapter :- Critical psychiatry is the name for an approach that encourages a self-critical attitude to psychiatric pr...

I've mentioned before, when discussing the Royal College of Psychiatrists' views about antidepressant discontinuation problems (se...

I’ve previously (eg. see post ) mentioned the Philadelphia Association (PA) . Its first therapeutic community was the infamous Kingsley Ha...

Plöderl et al ( 2020 ) have produced the most definitive commentary yet on whether antidepressants are associated with increased suicide r...

I'm very grateful to Brad Lewis for this guest post, following that from Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas, also on postpsychiatry (see prev...

I said in a previous post that I was not convinced that Sanneke de Haan was correct that Engel’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model does not do ...

It's a while since I've strung together tweets of quotes or amended quotes I've made from a book to summarise it (see eg. prev...

Thomas Fuchs in his Ecology of the brain   emphasises how the entire organism is a “resonance body” for experience. For example, feeling as...

The  Queen’s speech last December 2019 said work will continue to modernise and reform the Mental Health Act (MHA). This includes giving ...

I've mentioned Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas's work on postpsychiatry previously (see eg. previous post ). I'm very pleased they...

I said in a previous post that clinical psychologists may be more easily able to take an anti-reductionist position in mental health work ...