Thinking differently about mental health

I have been reading the report by the Division of Clinical Psychology Understanding psychosis and schizophrenia . The report states that c...

I've just taken the Amen Clinic ADD type questionnaire. I didn't know that Daniel Amen had suggested there are 7 types of ADD: cl...

Following up my previous post about global mental health, I understand the motivation of #FundaMentalSDG to include mental health as on...

From a survey of mental health experts, Mark Micale has produced a list of the 12 most important changes in American psychiatry since Worl...

Juliette Jowit makes a case in a Guardian comment that parity of esteem in mental health services is a scientific necessity rather than ...

Following my previous post , I just wanted to be clearer about why I am not advocating totally abandoning psychiatric diagnosis. My positi...

Allen Frances asks " How do we create a compassionate, cost effective mental health system?" and Psychiatric Times collects som...

Cannabis use and cigarette use at age 16 were both associated, to a similar degree, with psychotic episodes at age 18 in a cohort study p...

John Breeding is concerned about the legacy of Thomas Szasz in his article in SAGE open. He rightly emphasises Szasz's focus on ...

Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone (@clinpsychlucy) argue for alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis in a Lancet Psychiatry comment . As I have ...

According to Blogger statistics, this blog has now had more than one million pageviews. Is this correct? And why is this post  on the reco...

Yesterday was Bipolar UK 's third annual national bipolar awareness day. What Bipolar UK is concerned about is that people may have to...

Pat Bracken in an  article in World Psychiatry says psychiatry is in trouble and needs to move from reductionism to hermeneutics. He bui...

A Lancet Psychiatry editorial argues for compromise in debates about mental health issues. I do agree that "the opportunities for g...

Following up previous posts ( What place for diagnosis in mental health care? and Responsible clinicians under the Mental Health Act ) on...

As I said in my previous post , I have been reading Peter Kinderman's new book, A prescription for psychiatry . He suggests that, ...

I have been reading Peter Kinderman's (see previous post ) new book A prescription for psychiatry . Peter is very clear that "the...

Tom Stockmann has started his Mandelas blog which looks as though it will be interesting.

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...