psychosocial factors – A New Vision for Mental Health

How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers

Author: Editorial 24th July 2023 0 Comments

This paper – available via Research Gate in the ‘History of Psychiatry’ category – is co-authored by Fritz Handerer, Peter Kinderman, Carsten Timmermann, and Sara J Tai. The abstract says: “This paper explores the historical developments of admission registers of psychiatric…
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A proposal to introduce formal recording of psychosocial adversities associated with mental health using ICD-10 codes

Author: Editorial 2nd March 2022 0 Comments

This article by Kate Allsop and Peter Kinderman has been published in The Lancet. It begins: “It is well known that poverty and social inequity are major determinants of our mental health, 1 and the United Nations Special Rapporteur 2 characterises mental health…
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Kate Allsopp, Peter Kinderman, psychosocial factors, The Lancet

Is It Time to Reconsider the ‘Disease Model’ of Mental Health?

Author: Editorial 4th August 2021 0 Comments

“A prominent U.K. psychologist believes we should change the way we talk about depression, anxiety, and other forms of psychological distress” This article has been written by Markham Heid and published on the Elemental website. It begins: “In2013, the British Psychological…
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British Psychological Society, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, disease model, Elemental, Markham Heid, pathologisation, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, psychosocial factors

Why hasn’t neuroscience delivered for psychiatry?

Author: Editorial 13th March 2020 0 Comments

“… it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist … despite attempts to suggest the contrary.” This article in the BJPsych Bulletin (published on behalf of the Royal…
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BJPsych Bulletin, David Kingdon, Genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychosocial factors, Research

A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing

Author: Editorial 21st June 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Prof. Peter Kinderman. The publishers say that it: “… lays bare the flaws and failings of traditional mental health care and offers a radical alternative. Exposing the old-fashioned biological ‘disease model’ of psychiatry as unscientific…
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books, coercion, emotional distress, individual uniqueness of client and patient, medical model, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, psychosocial factors

Models of Mental Health (Foundations of Mental Health Practice)

Author: Editorial 14th January 2019 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Gavin Davidson, Jim Campbell, Ciaran Shannon and Ciaran Mulholland. The publishers say: “This key text book presents a critical overview of the main theoretical perspectives relevant to mental health practice and argues that no one…
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Guidelines on Language in Relation to Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 26th January 2018 1 Comment

The “Beyond Functional Psychiatric Diagnosis Committee” – from the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP), which is part of the British Psychological Society – have published guidelines giving alternatives to standard medical diagnostic language. For example: Not “mental illness”, but instead…
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British Psychological Society, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual (DSM), International Classification of Diseases (ICD), language, medical diagnostic language, New Approaches, psychosocial factors