Thinking differently about mental health

Laura Galbusera et al ( 2021 ) discuss the importance not only of the personal but also of the interpersonal dimension for person-centred ps...

Sarah Vine describes her history of being prescribed antidepressants and then having withdrawal problems (see Daily Mail article ). She exp...

Reform of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales can learn from reform in other parts of the world, not least Scotland (see previous pos...

The 2007 amendments to the Mental Health Act (MHA) in England and Wales introduced Independent Mental Health Advocates (IMHAs). As the Code ...

Dr Ellie Cannon found it weird that she was criticised for giving what she considers standard NHS advice about antidepressants on the This M...

Several of the posts on this blog over the last few years have been on reform of the Mental Health Act in England and Wales, following the i...

Vinkers et ( 2021 ) helpfully discuss the evidence related to antidepressant withdrawal. As they say: When faced with the possibility of dis...

The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) is concerned that reform of the Mental Health Act (MHA) will require extra psychiatrists. It ha...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide should not be minimised. Official counts of death may substantially underestimate true death r...

Tania Gergel writes a very personal account in BJPsych of the benefits she has experienced from having ECT treatment. She discusses her tr...

Gemma Lewis and Glyn Lewis have a further article in The Conversation (see previous post ), this time about their recent ANTLER study, whic...

VoiceAbility and over 50 other signatories have written to the Secretary of Health and Social Care (see webpage ) calling on the government ...

Psychiatry has difficulty dealing with the limits to its knowledge about mental illness (see eg. previous post ). Owen Whooley in his book O...

Current editorial in The Lancet talks about promoting good brain health. Ironically, it uses the concept of ‘brain health' to encourag...

I don’t think I fully appreciate all the nuances in the recent debate in Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology ( PPP ) about the implicatio...

John Iliopoulos (see his guest blog  post ) has an article in BJPsych Advances on 'Foucault understood critical psychiatry'. As I’v...

A BJPsych Advances  article by Ian Anderson, who I have mentioned before (eg. see previous post ), has critiqued the review  by Read et al ...

As I’ve said before (see previous post ), I think Engel’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model can be made more explicit by utilising enactivism. My ...

The Academia platform has reminded me of a paper by Bradley Lewis  on ‘The biopsychosocial model and philosophical pragmatism: Is George E...

The government has responded to a review of people with a learning disability and autistic people who have been placed in long-term segregat...

The Scottish Mental Health Law Review has produced an impressive July 2021  interim report . It follows a ‘human rights model’ of disabilit...

As I said in a previous post , I have concerns about people with lived experience of dementia being seen as representative of all those with...

Pleased to see that a group of trainees (including Tom Stockmann, current CPN co-chair - mentioned in previous post - and already a consult...

As I’ve mentioned before (see previous post ), Franco Basaglia in Italy was twice found not guilty of criminal liability following patient h...

The government has published its response to the consultation on the White paper on Reform of the Mental Health Act (see previous post ). I...

Abstract of my recent BJPsych Advances   article  below. This article follows publication of my editorials in BJPsych and BJPsych Bulletin ...

Trevillion et al ( 2021 ) in a qualitative study identified that people using community mental health services think relational practice is ...