Intelligent Kindness: Reforming the Culture of Healthcare
Author Archive: Editorial
Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry – A Doctor’s Revelations about a Profession in Crisis
ECT depression therapy should be suspended, study suggests
The Inflamed Mind: A radical new approach to depression
“Professor Bullmore explores how the current division between Psychiatry and the rest of medicine has developed and how we might change that. He puts forward a fascinating theory that attributes depression to inflammation rather than serotonin imbalance as has traditionally…
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Open letter regarding the reform and revision of diagnostic systems
“We … recommend a paradigmatic revision of the empirical and conceptual frameworks used to think about mental health. A classification approach that pursues the neo-Kraepelinian goal (now nearly half a century old) of establishing biomarkers for individual conditions or symptoms…
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Gardening can do what medicine only ‘tries to mimic’ for mental health, Monty Don says
“That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are small things but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.” Helena…
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The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us – A Diary
‘Full Measure’: Fake science
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly…
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Is medical research now beyond redemption?
“… without so called ‘evidence’ there is no seat at the guideline table. This is the fundamental ‘commissioning bias,’ the elephant in the room, because the drug industry controls and funds most research. So the drug industry and EBM [evidence…
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‘I feel imprisoned’: why loneliness won’t be solved by national planners
“As lockdown eases, the government’s fixation on top-down strategy is risking the mental health of the loneliest citizens” A centralised approach characterises many government schemes in relation to mental health and wellbeing (the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme, for…
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