Thinking differently about mental health

Bruce Levine , one of whose books I reviewed some time ago, has an article on the Greanville Post  which asks " Why has the America...

I've commented before on the expansion in the diagnosis of bipolar II disorder (eg. see previous post ). Reading Nassir Ghaemi's f...

An article by Peter Gøtzsche (english translation posted on Mad in America blog), containing what he sees as 10 myths about psychotropic ...

Thomas Insel's latest post on his NIMH director's blog focuses on March being Brain Awareness Month. Although as Insel admits, we...

Recruits from an undergraduate psychology course with a past or current episode of depression were led to believe that the purpose of a st...

What is mood instability? As the article by Marwaha et al (2012) says there is a "lack of a clear, accepted and well-validated defin...

I've been told in an email that these are the pharma pipleine presentations at the 4th Schizophrenia International Research Society Co...

Article in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease discusses why psychiatrists came to different conclusions about whether Anders Breivik w...

Cynthia Joyce, the chief executive of MQ: Transforming Mental Health (see previous post ), in her post on the Wellcome Trust blog, does n...

Craddock & Mynors-Wallis make the case for psychiatric diagnosis in a BJPsych editorial , although I'm not sure why they think it...

Rachel Waddingham, Adam Juhgroo, Rob Allison and Phil Thomas have put out a call to recruit people   who might be interested to tell th...

An article in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, giving a wake up call to European psychiatry, starts quite well:- The DSM-5 was publ...

Stuart Jessop, a patient with depression, in response to a BMJ article , says patients don't care whether antidepressants are merely...

Now there's another blog to read besides this one!

Allen Frances has clarified his position on psychiatric diagnosis in his Saving Normal series on Psychology Today (see article ). Althoug...

It's worth looking at the article by Peter Tyrer in The Psychiatrist  on community psychiatry in the context of today's report fro...

The headline for this piece is deliberately tongue in cheek. It's not supposed to imply that the introduction of community treatment o...

The Sun has been taken to task for producing the front page headline that 1200 people have been killed by mental patients in the last 10 ...

Just to reinforce my previous post , the President of the American Psychiatric Association has said that the mass shooting in the Navy Yar...

Gallup have found that 48% of Americans say that they blame the mental health system "a great deal" and 32% "a fair amount...

Tom Burns, who I have mentioned in a previous post , has written a bland apology for psychiatry, Our necessary shadow: The nature and mean...

Collection of psychiatrists' views about DSM-5 , including those of Charles Nemeroff (see previous post ) and Simon Wessely (see anoth...

This website has been given a 20% discount for the important, soon to be published book The bitterest pills by Jo Moncrieff. Order throug...

Just to reinforce my previous post , Psychiatric Times  has a video article  suggesting that the next fashion in antidepressant research w...

Move over serotonin; let's exploit glutamate in the treatment of depression. So suggests the journalist, Samantha Murphy, in a New Sci...

At least Jeffrey Lieberman is prepared to engage with criticism of psychiatry in his role as President of the American Psychiatric Associa...

Simon Wessely in his blog post  about an IOP conference on DSM-5 assumes there will be a DSM-6. Have we now come to expect co ntinuous rev...

To his credit, Norman Lamb (who I have mentioned on my personal blog eg. see previous post ), Minister of State at the Department of Healt...

Phil Thomas asks why Charles Nemeroff has been asked to give the inaugural annual lecture of the new Centre for Affective Disorders at the...

The blog entry by Thomas Insel, NIMH director, has created much comment (eg. New Scientist article and blog post by Phil Thomas). I...

THE RADICAL CAUCUS HAS MANY IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES THIS YEAR, AND OUR COLLEAGUES FROM THE CRITICAL PSYCHIATRY NETWORK WILL BE JOINING US. ...

I've mentioned before the apparent fun people have at NEI congresses (see previous post ). The latest video from neipsychopharm gives a...

Leaders of British academic social psychiatry argue in BJPsych editorial that the rules regulating research and the dominant neurobiolog...

Jeremy Laurance in The Independent says that a study led by Hugh Gurling has opened up the prospect of so-called personalised treatment ...