Thinking differently about mental health

Soteria Network (UK): AGM and Open Forum Saturday, 20 September 2014 11 am – 4 pm, Manchester Promoting the develo...

I've been re-reading one of Thomas Szasz's last papers (see previous post ) in which he is quite scathing about the Critical Psych...

I've just tweeted the link to Peter Kinderman's recent post on Mad in America. Peter may overuse the term "distress" fr...

Following his death (see previous post ), I have been re-reading Alec Jenner's personal memoir (1) of Erwin Stengel, his predecessor a...

Prof essor Alec Jenner, founding editor of Asylum Magazine , died on July 3rd.  The funeral service will be held in St Nicholas Church, Hi...

Sandra Steingard has posted a video of a talk "Why I became a critical psychiatrist" on her Anatomy of a Psychiatric Practice  ...

According to a Times article , Sir Simon Wessely, President-elect of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, thinks it is "nonsense to s...

A Lancet Psychiatry article attacks Peter Gøtzsche (who I have mentioned in a previous post ) for saying that antidepressants do more ha...

Aku Kopakkala, who worked for Mehiläinen , a private health care organisation in Finland, has been sacked after appearing on a TV programm...

Maybe because I am approaching pension age, I have been thinking about the impact of critical psychiatry on practice. There seems to be li...

The Movement for Global Mental Health emerged from a 2007 Lancet series, which concluded with a call for action . According to Vikram Pate...

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...