Thinking differently about mental health

Jammed by JAMA . Jonathan Leo used to be co-editor of the Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry journal. Even if the JAMA editor thinks h...

Dr Ian Frampton has got a busy week coming up at the 9th London International Eating Disorders conference 2009 , which explains how he'...

I still haven't got round to reading the National Dementia Strategy as I said I would. Still the BMJ editorial about it is a good read....

Rolling Stone Bitter Pill story and behind the story .

NIMH are still getting away with saying that depressive illnesses are disorders of the brain without quoting any evidence. So they're a...

How can a cinema advert by Pfizer, the makers of Viagra, not mention the drug they make? By saying the real danger is counterfeit medicines...

Good series has just finished. Listen again, I would say, particularly to episode 2 Altered states and episode 5 Which way now?

Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer's 4 & 11 February, BBC Two 9pm. Alzheimer's Disease Society discussion at Talking Point ...

BMJ publishes five commentaries on Doctors, patients and the drug industry . Copy of editor's choice page from print journal.

Phil Barker's review of my edited book Critical Psychiatry has provoked me to reply . Comments please.

Emma Dent from HSJ's version of dementia strategy . Good to point out that programme of support and counselling at diagnosis can be help...

Health Service Journal version . Are clinics the best way forward? Shouldn't people with dementia be seen at home? Isn't this the hi...

GlaxoSmithKline to slash 6,000 jobs . Competition from generic manufacturers and doubts about company pipelines are posing a serious threat ...

Health secretary Alan Johnson will unveil the national dementia strategy this week . The government's aim is to raise the profile of dem...

An offshoot blog has been created.

Another story about an animal (this time a dog) being treated for depression. This time the problem is unpredictable depression that caused...

Telegraph story - Parrot is taking Prozac for depression following the death of its owner . Actually it's not Prozac (fluoxetine), prob...

Guess who's registered the internet domain preventsuicide.com. It's Ferguson Safety Products . Aren't the models sterotypes? I ...

Story from the Independent - R D Laing: The celebrity shrink who put the psychedelia into psychiatry Read Bob Mullan's biography

Not this one but try: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: A Closer Look Advances in the history of psychology Pha...

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