Thinking differently about mental health

The latest Mad in America podcast includes an interview with Sir Robin Murray, who I have mentioned in previous posts (eg. Schizophreni...

The title of the 2018 medical student essay prize established by the Faculty of General Adult and Community Psychiatry of the Royal Colle...

The philosophy of biology can contribute to critical psychiatry. I came across Daniel Nicholson 's PhD thesis on 'Organism and Mec...

In a JAMA Psychiatry viewpoint , Amit Etkin suggests that brain neuroimaging risks creating ‘Just-So Stories', internally consistent ...

I went to an open-minded talk this lunchtime by Professor Dame Til Wykes about therapy for cognition in schizophrenia. She was prepared ...

I've posted verbatim a copy of the talk I gave recently to the Council for Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis , a college of the UK ...

I’ve mentioned before that the PhD I’ve just started (see previous post ) is on ‘The foundations of critical psychiatry’. Critical psychia...

The current review  of the Mental Health Act (see p revious post ) needs to take account of the recently published book Institutional raci...

I have mentioned Carmine Pariante in a previous post . Yesterday I went to a talk he gave in the Cambridge Department of Psychiatry on ...

Google books has made freely available the chapter 'Reflections on critical psychiatry' by Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas in the new...

A Guardian article is headlined to ask why we shame people for taking antidepressants. I don't think this is what those who are crit...

The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) has produced a ' Liverpool Declaration ' be...

I have uploaded a video of my talk 'Critical psychiatry: Its definition and differences' given at the AAPP conference in San Die...

Jay Watts has a chapter 'IAPT and the ideal image' in The future of psychological therapy   in which she describes the chasm bet...

Oliver James has posted references on his website , which he mentioned in his talk given at the Limbus Critical Psychotherapy conference ...

I mentioned on my personal blog (see post ) that I am going back to Cambridge University in the autumn to do a PhD in Psychology on ...

I have mentioned in a previous post that Jim van Os wants to abandon the term 'schizophrenia'. In a follow up article , Guloksuz ...

I mentioned in my Lancet Psychiatry letter that doctors, because of their medical training, have difficulty in giving up the disease mod...

At the recent General Election, the Conservative Party said that it would replace the 1983 Mental Health Act in England and Wales with n...

I have mentioned previously (see post ) the value of implicating mental health as one of the United Nations sustainable development goals....

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has produced a report which focuses on the right of everyone...

My previous post mentioned the recent AAPP conference on critical psychiatry. At this conference, Nev Jones proposed Derridean deconstruc...