Friday, September 25, 2020

Information about antidepressant withdrawal

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I expressed concern about the position statement on antidepressants and depression produced by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) ...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Personal reflection on critical psychiatry

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My invited submission to BJPsych  A dvances on ‘ Clinical reflections on critical psychiatry ’ has been rejected. As I’ve mentioned before ...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Towards a more relational psychiatry

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I have mentioned 'relational psychiatry' before (see previous post ). Even though I come from a critical psychiatry position, which ...

Misdirected aspirations for psychiatric classification

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Peter Zachar et al ( 2019 ) have published an oral history of the development of DSM-5. For some reason, this does not seem to have included...
Monday, September 14, 2020

Treatment of depression with antidepressants is primarily a placebo treatment

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I’ve mentioned before that NICE may be laying itself open to judicial review about its depression guideline (see previous post ). I’ve also ...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

The argument for medical nihilism

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Jacob Stegenga published his book on Medical nihilism  in 2018. He aligns himself with therapeutic nihilism meaning that "it is impos...
Friday, September 11, 2020

“[P]ast 20 years have not been good for the quality of care [in mental health services]”.

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BJPsych Bulletin has an interview with Tom Burns, who I have mentioned previously (eg. see previous post ). He talks about the OCTET study ...
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...