Set within a North American context (USA), and with relevance to both mental health and physical healthcare, this documentary looks at the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. The documentary’s producers say that it exposes “… the insidious ways that illness is…
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Have you heard of the Rosenhan experiment, conducted back in the 1970s to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis? Wikipedia says: “The experimenters feigned hallucinations to enter psychiatric hospitals, and acted normally afterwards. They were diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and…
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Psychiatric diagnosis has become one of the most contested practices in mental health services today. Lucy Johnstone asks ‘Do you still need your psychiatric diagnosis?’ This book will help you to decide. A revolution is underway in mental health. If the authors…
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The publishers of this book (by Christopher Lane, published 2009) say: “In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical…
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Ahead of the General Election in June, the We Need To Talk coalition of 20 mental health organisations has issued their manifesto calling for more access to psychological therapies through the NHS. The NHS target to provide psychological therapy to…
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This interview with psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi is part of Childhood Made Crazy , an interview series from psychologist Eric Maisel that takes a critical look at the current “mental disorders of childhood” model. The series is comprised of interviews with practitioners, parents, and other children’s advocates as well…
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In April 1966 a comedy “class sketch” (otherwise called “I know my place”) formed part of that week’s “The Frost Report” – a satirical TV programme. It featured John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett. Inspired by this, the…
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The ‘mental healthcare’ system should be re-designated (and re-labelled) as primarily a system for emotional and psychological healthcare. This is because the ‘mental’ designation is: Misleading … emotions form the core experiences (sadness, rage, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt etc.) of most…
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A 999 call comes in. The man says he is ill, he’s hearing voices and wants to kill someone. Usually emergency services would be despatched and he’d probably be taken to an already overstretched accident and emergency department. But in…
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Our vision is of a simple system of service-based assessment and referral that doesn’t rely on an increasingly complex system of diagnostic labelling. It is a mental and emotional health care system that both removes a great deal of the…
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