The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Author Archive: Editorial
Bromley-by-Bow Centre and the future of mental health treatment
An article in The Guardian Newspaper (by Kate Lyons, July 29th 2016) about the future of mental health treatment included the following about the Bromley-by-Bow Centre in London: “Five minutes’ walk from a tube station in east London, past an abandoned block of flats with broken windows,…
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The medical model and prescribed drugs
As relevant to the medical model of mental healthcare and the issue of prescribed drugs … Three articles in the Daily Telegraph (June 30th and July 2nd 2016) have reported on how: 1) “More than one in three members of…
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
In this book (a 1964 abridged edition of a book published in 1961) Michel Foucault: “… examines the archaeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part…
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Mental Illness Weaponry and Shrink Hypocrisy About Abolishing Stigma
Writing in CounterPunch , Bruce E. Levine, says: “I am a mental health professional, a clinical psychologist, which is not quite as bad as being a psychiatrist but still nothing to brag about. Hypocrisy in U.S. mental health professional policy abounds…
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Can what you eat affect your mental health? Research links diet and the mind
Gisela Telis, reporting (March 2014) in the Washington Post , writes: “Jodi Corbitt had been battling depression for decades and by 2010 had resigned herself to taking antidepressant medication for the rest of her life. Then she decided to start a dietary experiment. To…
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The Hearing Voices Café
“To hear oneself speak is maybe the minimal definition of consciousness.” The Café’s website says: “The designation “Hearing Voices Café” actually applies to every well-patronised coffee shop. At the same time, the phrase “hearing voices” is also associated with the…
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British Association for Music Therapy
The British Association for Music Therapy (BAMT) say that: “Music plays an important role in our everyday lives. It can be exciting or calming, joyful or poignant, can stir memories and powerfully resonate with our feelings, helping us to express them and to communicate with…
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Generation Rx? Review of ‘Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up’
Kaitlin Bell Barnett’s book, Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up , asks some uncomfortable questions about how an era of kids on psychotropic drugs are living now. Casey Schwartz, writing in The Daily Beast : “I was 22, walking across the campus of UCLA, where I was taking summer…
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Art allowed me to express myself in a way I had never done before. I’ve come so far since my desperate suicide attempt
Writing in The Guardian , Debbie Taylor: “When I was growing up in the 1970s, mental health issues were not widely understood or discussed. One morning when I was eight-years-old, I woke up in bed and felt funny, I was shaking. It…
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