Editorial

Researchers Outline Coproduction Framework for Inpatient Mental Health

Author: Editorial 11th March 2022 0 Comments

This report by Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In a new article published in Academic Quarter, Michael John Norton and Calvin Swords explore coproduction in acute inpatient mental health services. The authors examine the dominance of the…
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collaborative practice

acute inpatient mental health services, capabilities model, coproduction, Mad in America, Research, Richard Sears, service users, social constructionism

In ‘Wintering,’ Katherine May Encourages ‘The Active Acceptance Of Sadness’

Author: Editorial 10th March 2022 0 Comments

This book review comes from Heller McAlpin: “… British writer Katherine May offers some warming advice: Embrace your winter! By winter, she means not just the cold season, but ‘a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world,…
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a wellbeing society

Asperger's, autism, books, Heller McAlpin, Katherine May, sadness, wellbeing, winter

Scientists discover what could be stopping you from happiness

Author: Editorial 9th March 2022 0 Comments

“A new study of 7,443 people from 40 countries were questioned on their emotional wellbeing, satisfaction with life and mood complaints” This article by Joe Pinkstone – concerning a study by researchers from Tilburg University (Netherlands) – appears in The Telegraph….
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a wellbeing society

Culture & Society, emotional wellbeing, happiness, Joe Pinkstone, The Telegraph, wellbeing

Investigation into Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 7th March 2022 0 Comments

This doctoral thesis comes from Jade Varney and has been published on the website of Canterbury Christ Church University. It includes: A review of alternatives to psychiatric diagnosis: “The first part of the review explored what the literature suggests should be…
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a coherent system

Classification and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Concerns, diagnostic labelling, ICD-11, Jade Varney, Listing problems, Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatry, Psychological Formulation

Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree

Author: Editorial 4th March 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The New Statesman. It begins: “One afternoon in December 2004, Samantha* left her house in northern England and walked to the nearby river. She tried not to think about her five young…
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a coherent system

Critical Psychiatry Network, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatry, Sami Timimi, Sophie McBain, The New Statesman

Depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer

Author: Editorial 3rd March 2022 0 Comments

This article from Prof. John Read (clinical psychologist) and Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (psychiatrist) has been published in Psychological Medicine. The abstract says: “The dominant view within mental health services and research suggests that feeling depressed is a kind of medical illness,…
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a coherent system

depression, ECT, Joanna Moncrieff, John Read, psychiatry, Psychological Medicine

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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a coherent system

Kate Allsopp, Peter Kinderman, psychosocial factors, The Lancet

Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End

Author: Editorial 28th February 2022 0 Comments

This article by Robert Whitaker has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In its May 25, 2021 issue, JAMA published a report on the comparative efficacy of two medications for treating preschoolers diagnosed with ADHD. Both methylphenidate and guanfacine were deemed to…
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a coherent system

ADHD, children and adolescents, evidence-based, Genetics, Mad in America, neuroscience, preschoolers, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker

Just a pill? How psychiatry pathologises female experience

Author: Editorial 25th February 2022 0 Comments

This article , by Victoria Smith, has been published on The Critic magazine website. It begins: “Photos of ghost children decorated the walls of the adolescent psychiatric unit. ‘Patients from the olden days,’ staff would tell us. ‘They could have been…
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a coherent system

diagnostic labelling, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, The Critic, Victoria Smith, women

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

Author: Editorial 24th February 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Jessica Taylor. The publishers say: “Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever…
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a coherent system

books, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), diagnostic labelling, domestic violence, Jessica Taylor, patriarchy, personality disorder, psychiatry, trauma, violence, violence against women, women

Author Archive: Editorial

In ‘Wintering,’ Katherine May Encourages ‘The Active Acceptance Of Sadness’

Scientists discover what could be stopping you from happiness

Investigation into Alternatives to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree

Depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer

A proposal to introduce formal recording of psychosocial adversities associated with mental health using ICD-10 codes

Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End

Just a pill? How psychiatry pathologises female experience

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

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