Thinking differently about mental health

I've been asked how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is allowed to call schizophrenia a "chronic brain disorder" o...

Twitter conversation this morning (see thread leading to my tweet ) has made me realise that it may be misleading to say that people who h...

Although the Critical Psychiatry Network was formed over twenty years ago (see my editorial ), critical psychiatry remains marginal to mai...

Immanual Kant in the section on the ‘Critique of Teleological Judgement’ in his Critique of Judgement  (1790) said:- For it is quite cer...

I reviewed Ronald Pies' book Psychiatry on the Edge a few years ago (see review  and previous post) . A recent Psychiatric Times arti...

An editorial in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica asks whether the time has come to treat depression with anti-inflammatory medication. Thi...

As I said in my previous post , challenging the biomedical model of psychiatry is not anti-psychiatry. Another example of how the term ...

Lisa Cosgove and Jon Jureidini have responded (see article ) to a Debate article in the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatr...

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...