Thinking differently about mental health

I wasn’t going to blog about Carmine Pariante’s recent New Humanist article , as it just repeats what he has already published. But he has ...

I want to start this post with a quote:- There has been a massive growth in mental health services during the past 20 years as psychiatry ha...

Wes Streeting, Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has said that one of the first pieces of legislation he would bring for...

As the BMJ reports (see article ), a group of politicians, experts, and patient representatives has called for the UK government to reverse ...

I’ve reposted a previous post from September 2010 about ‘Misleading children about mental illness’. The link to the NIH curriculum suppleme...

(Originally published Sept 2010) The NIH curriculum supplement for middle school (grades 6-8), The science of mental illness , aims to intro...

As I mentioned in my book chapter :- Joseph Biederman, [was] professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psycho...

I’ve mentioned Ivana Marková before (see previous post ). She has an interesting article in History of Psychiatry  in which she draws from ...

I’ve mentioned before (eg. see previous post ) my article on ‘Twenty years of the Critical Psychiatry Network’ (CPN). Key CPN members have ...

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...