Thinking differently about mental health

It worries me that organisations acting on behalf of service users and their representatives can be so taken in by biomedical psychiatry. Fo...

I”ve recently signed an open letter on ‘The Pseudoscience Crisis’, expressing concern about the lack of academic response to it. Our online...

In a previous post , I mentioned the opportunity to respond to a draft version of the WHO/OHCHR guidance and practice document on Mental hea...

I’ve mentioned before reports produced by professor Dainius Pūras, when he was Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment ...

I’ve mentioned Aaron Esterson before (see previous post ). As I said in that post, Esterson co-authored Sanity, madness and the family with...

I have recently re-read my 2002 BMJ article ‘The limits of psychiatry’. As I said in a post on my personal blog, the article was rushed t...

The House of Commons Education Select Committee recently published its report on ‘Persistent absence and support for disadvantaged pupils’....

Zsuzsanna Chappell has a rich  article written in defence of the concept of mental illness. I have a previous post  on the meaning of the ...

Many so-called treatment resistant depressed patients do not respond adequately to two antidepressant medications given one after another. T...

I've mentioned Peter Gordon before (see previous post ). He raised a petition for a Sunshine Act for Scotland in September 2013 to make ...

I’ve mentioned John Dupré previously (see post ). His book The metaphysics of biology: Elements in the philosophy of biology (2021) looks at...

I completed two years in semi-retirement of a five year part-time PhD on ‘The foundations of critical psychiatry’ at the University Departme...

I've managed to find a Psychiatric Times article by David Kaiser (1996) ' Against biologic psychiatry ' which I thought had bee...

A diagnosis is a name for an illness or a disease. Technically, illness is the experience of symptoms and suffering and disease is the under...

Campolonghi & Orrù ( 2023 ) argue that psychiatry needs to abandon its biomedical framework (see Mad in America   research news ). As th...

Elisa Liberati et al ( 2023 ) tackle the issue of the lack of compassion in acute mental health services, exposed, for example, by undercove...

JAMA article  (one of whose co-authors is the current NIMH Director - see previous post ) on the potential and challenges of using psychede...

Allan Young , one of the co-authors of the recent article that indicated that serotonin is implicated in depression (see last post ), is quo...

As I explained in a recent post , psychiatrists find it difficult to give up the serotonin theory of depression. A paper in Molecular Psych...

I want to take further what I was saying about ADHD in a recent post . Over recent years, ADHD has been classified as a neurodevelopmental d...

I concluded my article on 'Towards a more relational psychiatry: A critical reflection' with the sentence:- Rather than psychiatric...

I want to look at some of the wider implications of the BBC Panorama programme exposure of private ADHD clinics. I'm not convinced the...

As Caio Maximino ( 2023 ) says in History of Psychiatry , the "over-reductionist neo-Kraepelinian approach" has been criticised fo...

Joseph Gough (see Gough ( 2021 ) and Gough ( 2023 )) seems to me to wrongly undermine the value for psychiatry of the explanation/understand...

David Healy (who I have mentioned before, see eg. previous post  and a review of one of his books) has published a blog post  on his websi...