Thinking differently about mental health

Antidepressant prescriptions dispensed in England have almost doubled since 2008 (see BBC News article ). Helen Stokes-Lampard, Chair of t...

Medium has a new mental health publication - ' Inspire the Mind ' - produced by the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology (SPI) Lab...

Despite me saying (eg. see previous post ) that people must be more realistic about the effectiveness of Improving Access to Psychological...

The Wellcome Trust has said it believes "a radical new approach is needed [in mental health] to drive science forward and improve peo...

I want to pick up on the way people who take a reductionist view on psychiatry, such as Ed Bullmore (see previous post ), accuse their c...

Fava & Balaise (2018) in a Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics editorial  comment on a failed trial (see letter ) of CBT to prevent rela...

The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 (see previous post ) has produced its final report ‘ Modernising the Mental Health Ac...

Peter Tyrer (who I have mentioned before, eg. see previous post ) has recognised the value of critical psychiatry, however grudgingly, in ...

John Iliopoulos in his book History of reason in the age of madness , which I have mentioned in a previous post , has a chapter entitled ‘...

Jean Khalfa, in his Introduction to his edited edition of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness , says that the book “has yet to be read”. ...

I went to a talk yesterday by Lisa Bortolotti in the Cambridge University Psychiatry department (see tweet ). This was based on her chapte...

The Times  had a  leading article last week that took up from its news  article the day before. It stated that "David Baldwin, a go...

Editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry helpfully calls for a “dispassionate analysis of the evidence” about psychiatric medication. It see...

James Davies in his book Cracked (see my review ), was surprised when Robert Spitzer, chair of the DSM-III task force, said no biologic...

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has an article about how to stop mass shootings (see article ). I've written before on t...

I’ve commented before on institutional corruption within psychiatry (eg. see previous post ). I’ve also pointed out how the Royal College ...

Peter Kinderman is giving a lecture at Salomons Centre in Tunbridge Wells this week entitled 'Our turbulent minds: why we’re all craz...

The European Psychiatric Association (EPA) has expressed "great concern and disappointment" in a position paper about what it...

I've commented before on corruption within psychiatry (eg. see previous post ). Dainius Pūras, the United Nations Special Rapporteur o...

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...