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Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization

Author: Editorial 18th March 2022 0 Comments

This article by David Heath has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In 1978, I became the medical director of a general hospital psychiatric unit serving the twin cities of Kitchener/Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Over the next four…
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acute mental illness, affective psychosis, David Heath, intensive home treatment (IHT), Mad in America, psychosis, Research, schizophrenia, severe depression

A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness

Author: Editorial 17th March 2022 0 Comments

This 6th edition book has been co-authored by Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim. The publishers say: “How do we understand mental health problems in their social context? A former BMA Medical Book of the Year award winner, this book provides a…
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Anne Rogers, books, Culture & Society, David Pilgrim, mental health, social psychiatry, sociology, therapeutic law

CBT: The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami

Author: Editorial 14th March 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Farhad Dalal. The publishers say: “Is CBT all it claims to be? The Cognitive Behavioural Tsunami: Managerialism, Politics, and the Corruptions of Science provides a powerful critique of CBT’s understanding of human suffering, as well as the…
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books, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Farhad Dalal, Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT), managerialism, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), scientism, Talking Therapies

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

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