Do we really need the diagnostic model of distress?
This ASC It! podcast and video – from the ASC Wellbeing Clinic – features a conversation with Dr Lucy Johnstone (Clinical Psychologist):
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Mainstream mental health services are a disaster
“They are a ‘busted flush’, long past their sell-by date, says consultant psychiatrist, Dr Sami Timimi.” In an article on the uncancelled website, Sami Timimi writes: “Hardly a week goes by without another headline about the epidemic of mental health problems…
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“Diagnostic Dissent”: Experiences of Individuals Who Disagreed With Their Diagnosis
“Researchers investigate the first-person experiences of people who disagreed with their psychiatric diagnosis of psychosis.“ This article has been written by Zenobia Morrill and published (2018) on Mad in America. It begins: “Faith Forgione, a student at Fordham University, NY, recently…
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Young, British and Depressed
In July of this year (2019) a TV broadcast titled “Young, British and Depressed” was screened on Channel 4 in the UK. It was produced by Dispatches, an investigative current affairs programme. In the broadcast, reporter Sanah Ahsan explores Britain’s youth depression crisis, to…
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The diagnosis question
In this article for Prospect Magazine, Eleanor Morgan writes: “Increasingly, mental health problems are labelled as an illness like any other. But can a focus on diagnoses, rather than experiences, harm as well as help? What is mental health? Despite the…
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Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs
This book has been written by Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory and David Cohen. The publishers say: “Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American…
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Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: clinically and scientifically irrelevant
The abstract of this article (written by David Cohen and David Jacobs, published in Debates in Neuroscience ) says: “This contribution to the ‘antidepressant debate’ focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the…
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A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Diagnosis
Psychiatric diagnosis has become one of the most contested practices in mental health services today. Lucy Johnstone asks ‘Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis?’ This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health. If the authors…
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Does psychiatry actually diagnose?
This interview with psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi is part of Childhood Made Crazy , an interview series from psychologist Eric Maisel that takes a critical look at the current “mental disorders of childhood” model. The series is comprised of interviews with practitioners, parents, and other children’s advocates as well…
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Shrink Radio: Reframing Diagnosis
Here’s a four minute section of ShrinkRadio’s broadcast about reframing diagnosis . It features artist and service-user Susan Young in conversation with Sarah Wheeler (Founder of Mental Fight Club) and Dr. Benjamin Robinson about what it means to be diagnosed. ShrinkRadio is a series…
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