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Letter of Resignation from the American Psychiatric Association

Author: Editorial 24th May 2021 0 Comments

Dr. Lauren Mosher was clinical professor of psychiatry and an expert on ‘schizophrenia’. For 12 years he was chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the (American) National Institute of Mental Health. He spent his professional career advocating…
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American Psychiatric Association, Lauren Mosher, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, Soteria, Wikipedia

DSM69: Dolly Sen’s Manual of Psychiatric Disorder

Author: Editorial 20th May 2021 0 Comments

Concerning this booklet , the publishers say: “Dolly Sen is a well known artist and activist working and exploring what it means to experience mental distress and the effects of being labelled with a psychiatric diagnosis. Her art is witty, humorous,…
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art, books, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, Dolly Sen, psychiatry

ECT is a classic failure of evidence-based medicine

Author: Editorial 7th May 2021 0 Comments

This Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry has hosted a guest-blog by Prof. Richard Bentall, who writes: “In a discipline to which controversy is no stranger, there are few controversies guaranteed to generate as much heat as that surrounding the benefits and costs…
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Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, meta‐analyses, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research, Richard Bentall

Psycho Politics

Author: Editorial 14th April 2021 0 Comments

This book by Peter Sedgwick, was first published back in 1982. The publishers say: “A classic in the field of mental health, one of the few credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement which retains its significance today, Psycho Politics includes scholarly…
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Alastair Kemp, books, Erving Goffman, Helen Spandler, Peter Sedgwick, psychiatry, R.D Laing, Rob Dellar, Thomas Szasz

Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t

Author: Editorial 8th April 2021 0 Comments

This book is from psychologist Lucy Foulkes. The publishers say: “Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with…
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adolescence, books, children and adolescents, COVID-19, Defining mental illness, diagnostic labelling, Lucy Foulkes, normality, stress

Defining mental illness

Author: Editorial 7th April 2021 0 Comments

This 42 minute podcast is from BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week series, hosted by Andrew Marr. The producers say: “Reports of a mental health epidemic among young people both leading up to and during the pandemic are now widespread. Sally…
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Andrew Marr, audio, BBC, children and adolescents, Defining mental illness, Lucy Foulkes, psychosomatic illness, Radio Four, Sally Holland, Suzanne O’Sullivan

Psychological Formulation as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 2nd April 2021 0 Comments

“… we might be in the very strange position of admitting, as one psychiatrist has pointed out, that psychiatry is ‘something very hard to justify or defend—a medical specialty that does not treat medical illnesses’ …”Dr. Peter Breggin, 1993, p….
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, formulation, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, team formulation

Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them

Author: Editorial 1st April 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi. The publishers say: “This book digs through the rotten undergrowth which fertilises the mental health industry. The level of failure and deceit is hard to believe. The diagnoses we use are…
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books, diagnostic labelling, overdiagnosis, psychiatry, resilience, Sami Timimi

Twenty-year effects of antipsychotics in schizophrenia and affective psychotic disorders

Author: Editorial 10th March 2021 0 Comments

“This study reports multiple findings that bring into question the use of continuous antipsychotic medications, regardless of diagnosis …” This study by Prof. Martin Harrow, Dr. Thomas Jobe and Dr. Liping Tong has been published in Psychological Medicine. The abstract says:…
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antipsychotics, Martin Harrow, Psychological Medicine, psychosis, Research, schizophrenia, Thomas Jobe

The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark

Author: Editorial 8th March 2021 0 Comments

“Martin Harrow and Thomas Jobe began their study, which was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, in the late 1970s. They enrolled 200 psychotic patients who had been treated conventionally in a mental hospital with antipsychotics and simply…
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antipsychotics, BBC, Mad in America, Martin Harrow, Norway, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Research, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, Thomas Jobe