Thinking differently about mental health

In the introduction to The birth of the clinic , Michel Foucault contrasts the views of Pomme from the middle of the eighteenth century an...

Race on the Agenda (ROTA) and Race Equality Foundation (REF) have made their submission to the Mental Health Act (MHA) Review 2018. I hav...

The Mad in Asia website has recently been launched. It’s part of a global network (see links ). I’ve posted before on global mental healt...

I’ve mentioned before (see previous post ) that I signed a complaint to the Royal College of Psychiatrists about a statement made by Wendy...

The origin of the term 'critical psychiatry' was probably in an edited book Critical psychiatry: The politics of mental health  ...

Further to my previous post in which I mentioned Charles Myers, I came across a lecture he gave in 1932 entitled ‘The absurdity of any mi...

I’ve mentioned before (eg. see previous post ) that I am doing a PhD in psychology at Cambridge University. It’s probably just as well tha...

An advertisement  article in the Guardian paid for by the Royal College of Psychiatrists uses Mary-Ellen Lynall (who I've mentioned ...

Linda Gask has an essay in The Lancet Psychiatry entitled 'In defence of the biopsychosocial model'. Progress does need to be ma...

It's touching to see Paul Salkovskis & Irene Sutcliffe apparently hankering after DSM-III in their The Mental Elf blog post . For ...

Further to my previous post about postpsychiatry, I have found that I like the view of John Iliopoulos that Foucault was not necessarily ...

As a young doctor, Ed Bullmore did not want senior physicians to start thinking he was bonkers, but now he’s long in the tooth it doesn’t ...

Akiko Hart has a MIA blog post about the interim report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act (see eg. previous post ). As ...

I have been looking at some minutes from when the Critical Psychiatry Network first started meeting in January 1999. A paper was written ...

Theo Manschrek and Arthur Kleinman in their introduction to a 1977 book, Renewal in psychiatry , that I have mentioned before (see previou...

Having first reflected (if that’s the right word) in the media, Cipriani et al now reflect on their network meta-analysis (see previous ...

I’ve expressed concern before about the scientific credibility of American academic psychiatry (see previous post ). Following the recent ...

Nassir Ghaemi has published his invited commentary which was rejected for a new book on Thomas Szsaz (see article ). It's the advantag...

I responded to a BMJ review of Sami Timimi’s book Pathological child psychiatry and the medicalisation of childhood ,  when   the book f...

Because of my scepticism, I was alerted when I saw the BJPsych editorial on cannabis and psychosis, which began, “It is now incontrovert...

I’ve posted before on Institutional racism and reform of the Mental Health Act . The Royal College of Psychiatrists has recently produced...

The recent Lancet study, which was reported in the media as ending the debate about the effectiveness of antidepressants, has ironically l...

Clare Gerada defended the Royal College of Psychiatrists on the Today programme this morning against a complaint (of which I was one of ...