This booklet – subtitled “Stories and Lessons in Transforming Care” – has been authored by Alicia Wood, with editing and contributions from Baroness Hollins, David Nuttall, David Towell and Bob Tindall, and design by Henry Iles. The publishers say: “These stories…
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This article comes from Dr. Sheila Hollins and has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “When people like my son go into crisis there is a high chance they won’t be supported at home – not because they can’t be…
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This news item comes from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. It begins: “GENEVA (6 June 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called for a sea change in mental…
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This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes a lecture video from Dr. Erick Turner (associate professor of psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers say that the course: “… describes the…
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This article (2011) by Dr. Marcia Angell (ex-editor of the New England Journal of Medicine) has been published by The New York Review. It begins: “In my article in the last issue, I focused mainly on the recent books by psychologist…
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Subtitled “A brief history of an archetypal psychiatric diagnosis”, this article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “During the pandemic, increased incidences of distress can be portrayed as proliferations of mental illnesses such as ‘Depressive…
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This book has been co-authored by Prof. Jon Jureidini and Dr. Leemon McHenry. The publishers say: “An exposé of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of…
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This paper (2005) by John Ioannidis has been published by PLOS Medicine. The abstract summary says: “There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power…
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“[Richard] Feynman argued that Cargo Cult Science involves cherry-picking evidence to support an assumed conclusion, ignoring contradictory evidence, and giving the appearance of science while failing to actually follow the scientific method.” This article by Sheelah Mills has been published by…
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Within the field of mental healthcare there has long been massive over-diagnosis of mental illness (not to mention shaky scientific justification for many of the diagnostic labels applied). Hence the relevance of this article (published in the British Medical Journal –…
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