Editorial

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Author: Editorial 16th February 2023 0 Comments

This paper by Lucy Foulkes and Jack L. Andrews has been published by New Ideas in Psychology. The abstract says: “In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public awareness about mental health problems,…
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Clients & Patients, inflation hypothesis, Jack Andrews, Lucy Foulkes, mental health awareness, New Ideas in Psychology

Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley

Author: Editorial 15th February 2023 0 Comments

Ayurdhi Dhar has interviewed sociologist Prof. Owen Whooley – author of On the Heels of Ignorance : Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing – about psychiatry’s stubborn perseverance in the face of recent DSM embarrassments and the failures of the biomedical model. The interview…
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Ayurdhi Dhar, biomedical model, chemical imbalance theory, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, Mad in America, Owen Whooley, psychiatry

A Bit of Fry & Laurie – Psycho Psychiatrists

Author: Editorial 13th February 2023 0 Comments

Something light-hearted, just for a change:

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Hugh Laurie, humor, humour, psychiatry, Stephen Fry, videos

That Was Then, This Is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For The Rest Of Us

Author: Editorial 10th February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Jonathan Shedler has been published in Contemporary Psychoanalysis. The abstract says: “Psychoanalysis has an image problem. The dominant narrative in the mental health professions and in society is that psychoanalysis is outmoded, discredited, and debunked. What most…
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collaborative practice

Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Jonathan Shedler, psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic education, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Psychiatric Psychodrama

Author: Editorial 9th February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his Psychiatry at the Margins blog-site. It begins: “‘The maddening ambiguity of our position is what leads to the titular psychiatric psychodrama. One cannot reconcile oneself to psychiatry because it constantly…
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Awais Aftab, Liam Kofi Bright, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins

Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships

Author: Editorial 8th February 2023 0 Comments

This book comes from Rob Wipond. The publishers say: “Asylums are supposed to be in the past. However, though the buildings were closed, many of the practices lived on. In fact, more law-abiding Americans today are being involuntarily committed and forcibly…
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asylum, books, Canada, coercive psychiatry, forced treatment, psychiatry, Rob Wipond, USA

Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses

Author: Editorial 6th February 2023 0 Comments

“… the decision will make Australia the first country in the world to officially recognise MDMA and psilocybin as medicines” This report (from Tory Shepherd for The Guardian) begins: “After decades of ‘demonisation’, psychiatrists will be able to prescribe MDMA and…
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Australia, David Caldicott, depression, MDMA, New Approaches, Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder, psilocybin, PTSD, The Guardian, Therapeutic Goods Administration, Tory Shepherd

Hermeneutic Labor in Medicine and Psychiatry

Author: Editorial 3rd February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “Ellie Anderson has discussed the notion of ‘hermeneutic labor’”’ in the context of feminist scholarship in a wonderful paper, ‘ Hermeneutic Labor: The Gendered Burden of Interpretation in Intimate Relationships Between Women and Men ,’ forthcoming in Hypatia….
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Awais Aftab, communication of emotions, Ellie Anderson, emotions, feminism, interpretation of emotions, Maia Bittner, phenomenological psychopathology, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins

The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype

Author: Editorial 2nd February 2023 0 Comments

“As psychologist John Read has shown , there are 15 ways that two people can meet the DSM criteria for schizophrenia without sharing any symptoms in common.” This article by Dr. Jay Joseph has been published by Mad in America. It begins:…
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Genetics, Jay Joseph, John Read, Mad in America, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, twin studies

The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD

Author: Editorial 1st February 2023 0 Comments

This transcript of a talk by Dr. Gabor Maté has been published by Sustainable Human . It begins: “In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually look at the evidence. But we don’t. I worked in family practice for…
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ADHD, biomedical model, children and adolescents, Gabor Maté, Mad in America, Sustainable Human, trauma-informed approaches, videos

Author Archive: Editorial

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis

Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley

A Bit of Fry & Laurie – Psycho Psychiatrists

That Was Then, This Is Now: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy For The Rest Of Us

Psychiatric Psychodrama

Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and Abusive Guardianships

Australia to allow prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for treatment-resistant mental illnesses

Hermeneutic Labor in Medicine and Psychiatry

The Schizophrenia Genetics Illusion—A Century of Failure and Hype

The Biases of Western Medicine | Gabor Maté, MD

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