Diagnosis as Self-Understanding & Self-Alienation: what you need to know about your diagnosis
a coherent system
Calling someone ‘anti-psychiatry’ is not an argument – and for many it feels abusive
Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner
This book review by Marion Brown has been published by BJGP Life (which publishes comment and opinion on research and clinical care for the primary care community): “Hengartner begins ‘Over my academic career, I went into different stages of belief and disbelief.’…
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Stop caging people with autism and learning disabilities, says Robert Buckland
Does Psychiatry Work? Review of ‘Desperate Remedies’ by Andrew Scull
This book review by Berties Bregman has been published in Commentary magazine. It begins: “When I was a young medical student and it came time to pick a specialty, the landscape was alarmingly broad. At one extreme was psychiatry. The noble goal…
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The Book of Woe: the DSM and the unmaking of psychiatry
This book comes from Gary Greenberg. The publishers say: “Since its debut in 1952, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has set down the “official” view on what constitutes mental illness. Homosexuality, for instance, was a mental illness…
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“Clear evidence” for serotonin hypothesis of depression?
Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?
Methodological Flaws, Conflicts of Interest, and Scientific Fallacies: Implications for the Evaluation of Antidepressants’ Efficacy and Harm
This paper by Michael Hengartner has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background In current psychiatric practice, antidepressants are widely and with ever-increasing frequency prescribed to patients. However, several scientific biases obfuscate estimates of antidepressants’ efficacy…
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Indicative Trauma Impact Manual 2023
This manual is currently on pre-order, with a release date of 1st March 2023. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of mental health…
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