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The rebellious psychiatrists who helped me see beyond the myths and stigma of mental illness

Author: Editorial 20th October 2021 0 Comments

This article by David Shariatmadari was published in The Guardian (2013). It begins: “‘Do you feel you have to agree with what most of the people round you believe?’ ‘Well, if I don’t I usually land up in hospital.’ It is…
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Aaron Esterson, David Shariatmadari, family relationships, psychiatry, R. D. Laing, schizophrenia, The Guardian

Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen

Author: Editorial 18th October 2021 0 Comments

In this interview , published on Mad in America (and relating more to an American context), Richard Sears talks to psychiatrist and anthropologist Helena Hansen about bringing structural competency to psychiatry while rebuilding communities through activism and mutual aid. Here is…
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audio, black people, gender, Helena Hansen, Mad in America, neuroscience, psychiatry, racism, Richard Sears, social prescribing, socio-economic class, stigma, structural competency, USA

They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

Author: Editorial 13th October 2021 0 Comments

This book by Paula Caplan, published in 1996, looks at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In 2013 the most recent DSM edition (DSM-5) was produced, expanding even further – to well over 600 – the number of…
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Allen Frances, books, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, Paula Caplan, psychiatry

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

Author: Editorial 6th October 2021 0 Comments

The topic of human consciousness is fundamental to discussions about mental health, mental healthcare and the best ways of helping those in psychological and emotional distress. This book by Thomas Nagel looks at the question of consciousness in a way that…
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books, cognition, consciousness, evolutionary theory, interpersonal neurobiology, materialism, molecular biology, neo-darwinianism, New Approaches, reductionism, Thomas Nagel

The Distinction Between Antisociality And Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 23rd September 2021 0 Comments

The suggested approach implied in the article below would, within the context of mainstream psychiatry, increase the already huge number (categories) of supposed mental illnesses (and increase the already vast number of psychiatric diagnoses) … which would not be a good…
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Abigail Marsh, antisocial behaviour, Antisocial Personality Disorder, badness, cognitive bias, Conduct Disorder, cultural bias, Culture & Society, Edge, madness, self-harm, USA

When the ads don’t work

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2021 0 Comments

This article , published on the website of Canterbury Christ Church University, has been written by Anne Cook and David Harper. It begins: “It’s a sobering thought that, for many people who use mental health services, other people’s reactions cause more…
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1995 Disability Discrimination Act, Anne Cooke, Canterbury Christ Church University, David Harper, Medicalisation of everyday life, Mental Health Campaigns, stigma, stigmatisation, Time to Change

The consciousness puzzle: Is panpsychism the solution?

Author: Editorial 10th September 2021 0 Comments

Mental ill-health – better described as psychological and emotional distress – fundamentally involves consciousness, a subjective awareness and experience. So if we misunderstand the nature of consciousness, then likely we will not be best placed to help those in distress….
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brain, consciousness, dualism, Galileo, Institute of Art and Ideas, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Panpsychism, Philip Goff, philosophy, qualitative, quantitative, videos

W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model

Author: Editorial 8th September 2021 0 Comments

“I cannot be the only person to be sickened by the sight of parties of psychiatrists standing at the airport desk with so many gifts with them that they might as well have the name of the drug company tattooed…
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Dainius Pūras, John Read, medical model, Mike Shooter, psychiatry, Psychiatry Through the Looking Glass, Psychology Today, Steven Sharfstein, United Nations, United Nations Special Rapporteur, World Health Organisation

Why I Can Never “Recover” Under NHS Mental Health Services

Author: Editorial 3rd September 2021 0 Comments

This post is from WrenAves’ Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad blog. It begins by declaring a content warning: “Mention of self-harm, abusive relationships, assault, psychiatric abuse”, then continues: “I’ve been seeing a private therapist now for 6 months, and it’s been an absolute revelation. After 9…
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Clients & Patients, counselling, diagnostic labelling, NHS, personality disorder, psychiatry, The Samaritans, WrenAves

Psychiatric Medications Kill More Americans than Heroin

Author: Editorial 27th August 2021 0 Comments

“”In 2014, 10,574 people died of heroin overdose while 15,778 died from an overdose of psychiatric medications, nearly 50% more.” This article by Kenneth Anderson has been published on the American Addiction Centers website. It begins: “In 2014, 10,574 people died…
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addiction, American Addiction Centers, heroin, Kenneth Anderson, MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey), Polypharmacy, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, USA

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