Thinking differently about mental health

The Economist has an editorial ‘Most people on antidepressants don’t need them: Time to wean them off’. It helpfully focuses on the need f...

My submission to the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill has been published, together with four pages of other submissions. A...

Another television programme, this time from Channel 4's Dispatches: Hospital undercover are they safe? ,  underlines how current inpati...

The scandal at the Edenfield Centre exposed by the BBC  Panorama programme  is reminiscent of scandals in the asylums from the 1960s. Serv...

Thomas Fuchs (who I have mentioned before eg. see previous post ) lectures online on 'Personhood and neuroscience'. As he says, ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) QualityRights Toolkit can be used to evaluate adherence by mental health services to the Convention on t...

Nour et al ( 2022 ) complain that mechanistic understandings of psychiatric treatments, such as psychotropic medication and psychotherapy, r...

Cristea & Naudet ( 2018 ) conducted a content analysis of citations of Leucht et al (2012) (see previous post ), a paper which concluded...

Kendrick & Collinson ( 2022 ) discuss the Moncrieff et al (2022) umbrella review about serotonin and depression (mentioned eg. in a prev...

Hawton et al ( 2022 ) discuss why reliance on risk prediction of suicide in clinical practice has failed and outline an alternative therapeu...

Stone et al ( 2022 ) provide data on response distributions of individual participants in antidepressant trials. It confirms previous data t...

Excellent podcast interview with John Foot on the politics of Franco Basaglia, based on his book (see eg. previous post ). Asylums have clo...

The draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales currently undergoing parliamentary scrutiny (see eg. previous post ), essentially amounts...

Thomas Fuchs (who I’ve mentioned before eg. see previous post ) has a recent paper on 'Understanding as explaining: how motives can bec...

Joanna Moncrieff has blogged on the recent paper in Molecular Psychiatry,  in which she was the lead author, which has created considerable...

Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) powerpoint presentation gives an overview of the draft Mental Health bill recently announced (s...

Moncrieff et al ( 2022 ) undertook a systematic umbrella review of the evidence for the serotonin theory of depression (see eg. previous pos...

As I mentioned in a previous post , the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called for inputs to the draft Guidanc...

I've mentioned that the UK government has published a draft Mental Health bill (see previous post ). Opt out advocacy arrangements are p...

Black people are four times more likely to be detained in psychiatric hospital under the Mental Health Act (MHA)  and ten times more likely ...

The government has announced a draft mental health bill  together with better support for people in crisis . I just wanted to pick up on how...

I mentioned in my last post  that there will be a draft Mental Health Act Reform Bill, probably this summer, which will be subject to pre-le...

I think a key question for parliamentary scrutiny of the draft Mental Health Act Reform Bill (when it is published - see background notes )...

Coercion needs to be reduced in mental health care (see eg. previous post ). Mahomed et al ( 2022 ) promote the development of supported dec...