Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness … Dr. Tom Burns talks to Matthew Reisz in this interview-article from 2013 as posted on the Times Higher Education website: “A leading psychiatrist has criticised ‘ultra-scientific’ approaches to…
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From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : Auntie Psychiatry writes: “This cartoon required a lot of background reading and study. I wanted to be as certain as possible about the validity of the phrase ‘Long-term drugging with antipsychotics causes brain shrinkage.’ My starting point…
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Written by Michael Pollan (May 2018), the full sub-title of this book is “What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression and Transcendence. The publishers say: “When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it…
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In an article in Aero magazine , Lisa Marchiano writes: “The London Times recently carried a story about an avalanche of self-harm among British school children. According to the article , “school nurses are dealing with panic attacks, self-cutting, overdoses and eating disorders rather than…
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In 2013 the British Psychological Society released a report whose abstract reads: “… there is need to move away from psychiatric diagnoses such as schizophrenia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, personality disorder and conduct disorder, which have significant conceptual and empirical…
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Published in 2016, and edited by Prof. Andrew Miles, the publishers of this book say: “Despite exponential increases in biomedical and technological advance over the 100 years that have radically transformed the scope, possibility and power of clinical practice, there…
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The BBC (Alex Therrien) reports: “Think of magic mushrooms and LSD and it’s likely that science is not the first thing that springs to mind. Psychedelic drugs are more likely to be associated with hippies and the counterculture of the…
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Subtitled “How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Wellbeing”, this book has been written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: The publishers say: “Why is the incidence of mental illness in the UK twice that in Germany? Why…
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Richard Godwin, writing in The Guardian : “Shortly after I sat down to read up on the auditory and non-auditory effects of noise on health in the Lancet , the drilling began – an angry, jagged, intermittent frenzy of metal on plaster. Our downstairs neighbours…
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Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives, July 2016, edited by Andrew Molodynski, Jorun Rugkåsa and Tom Burns … The publishers say: “The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest…
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