Thinking differently about mental health

Moving from an outdated physical disease model of mental illness to a more relational mental health practice

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

What is a case of depression in the coronavirus period? A case for what?

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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported yesterday that the Patient Health Questionaire (PHQ-8) scores for most people had increase...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Developing a non-medical mental health service

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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 ...
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Sunday, August 16, 2020

Minds are not disembodied

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Thomas Fuchs, who I have mentioned before (eg. see previous post ), has a useful summary (see article ) of the concept of circularity from a...
Monday, July 06, 2020

Brain effects of antipsychotic medication

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

Reifying the mind

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Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (whose book I have recently reviewed ) has an article on ‘The identity of psychiatry and the challenge of mad a...
Friday, June 19, 2020

Demarcating 'abnormality' from 'normality'

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I've said before (eg. see previous post ) that insisting on avoiding pathologising in mental health services can be misleading. I unders...
Monday, June 08, 2020

Psychiatry in need of a paradigm

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In his letter to the editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica , Gordon Parker argues for "multiple niched paradigms" in psychia...
Monday, June 01, 2020

Relational psychiatry

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I wrote in my book chapter :- Critical psychiatry is the name for an approach that encourages a self-critical attitude to psychiatric pr...
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Saturday, May 30, 2020

Psychiatric harm

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I've mentioned before, when discussing the Royal College of Psychiatrists' views about antidepressant discontinuation problems (se...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

The Philadelphia Association: Meeting oneself in the other

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I’ve previously (eg. see post ) mentioned the Philadelphia Association (PA) . Its first therapeutic community was the infamous Kingsley Ha...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Antidepressants and suicidality

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Plöderl et al ( 2020 ) have produced the most definitive commentary yet on whether antidepressants are associated with increased suicide r...
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Thursday, May 07, 2020

Looking back at the birth of postpsychiatry

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I'm very grateful to Brad Lewis for this guest post, following that from Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas, also on postpsychiatry (see prev...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Enactive psychiatry makes the biopsychosocial model explicit

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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 ...
Tuesday, May 05, 2020

Ecology of the brain

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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...
Monday, May 04, 2020

Psychosomatic symptoms as particularising of physical dysfunction

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Thomas Fuchs in his Ecology of the brain   emphasises how the entire organism is a “resonance body” for experience. For example, feeling as...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Right to a second opinion for detained psychiatric patients

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The  Queen’s speech last December 2019 said work will continue to modernise and reform the Mental Health Act (MHA). This includes giving ...
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Monday, April 27, 2020

Reflections on postpsychiatry

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I've mentioned Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas's work on postpsychiatry previously (see eg. previous post ). I'm very pleased they...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Users and abusers of psychiatry

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