Thinking differently about mental health

Further to my last post , it may be worth thinking a bit more about why psychiatry, and neuroscience in general, have taken us down the rout...

I have been thinking about the implications of the mereological fallacy (see previous post ) for psychiatry. Psychiatry must stop identifyin...

Erick Turner was a former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewer. At the FDA he was aware of publication bias due to negative result...

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) produced a report  in September 2021 to reduce overprescribing of medication. According to t...

Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode have made a valiant effort to provide a balanced perspective in the radio series ‘ Is psychiatry working? ’. ...

The study by Rosenhan (1973) published in Science  has probably always been difficult to believe. I’ve said before, though, that psychiatry ...

I've posted a summary (see  link ) of my views about critical/relational psychiatry, which is to be published in a forthcoming Oxford Un...

The Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health bill has produced an impressive report (see eg. last post  and twitter thread of what the C...

My understanding is that the Joint Committee on the draft Mental Health bill should be producing its report this week (see its  tweet ). I j...

Diana and Nik Rose have a Psychological Medicine article entitled ‘Is ‘another’ psychiatry possible?’. They discuss postpsychiatry (see eg....

Although psychiatrists generally admit  that brain science has not advanced to the point where discernible biological lesions or genetic abn...

Article in The Wall Street Journal exposes how advertising   and other strategies to promote expansion of treatment by digital mental healt...

I’ve emphasised before (eg. see previous post ) how medicine changed in the nineteenth century. K. Codell Carter in his book The rise of cau...

I have been re-reading my editorial in BJPsych Bulletin  entitled ‘Critical psychiatry: An embarrassing hangover from the 1970s?’. I conclu...

The Scottish Mental Health Law Review (SMHLR)  final report  (see summaries and recommendations ; also see previous post about interim repo...

Even though she may overstate her case, Katie Musgrave has a helpful article in Pulse about the state of NHS mental health services. I...

I have been re-reading my first published book chapter in This is madness too  (2001). Psychiatry doesn’t seem to have changed much in over...

Bruce Levine (who I've mentioned in a previous post ) highlights three reviews in his Counterpunch   article  that confirm that "th...

MailOnline has an article discussing views about lithium for bipolar disorder. Years ago I created a webpage for 'Efficacy of lithium...

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...