The trouble with antidepressants: why the evidence overplays benefits and underplays risks
collaborative practice
Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – New Zealand
“This is the first of two blogs about my invited tour of New Zealand and Australia with the Power Threat Meaning Framework (joined by contributing author John Cromby in Australia). The PTMF is an ambitious attempt to outline a conceptual…
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Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems
Lived experience of mental health: Benefit or hindrance?
Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
This interview comes from Conversations in Critical Psychiatry – an interview series from psychiatrist Awais Aftab for Psychiatric Times. The series explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status…
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Medicating Normal (a film)
Beyond diagnosis: developing an outcome orientated approach
This presentation by Sami Timimi (Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist) was given at a 2015 Conference – POSITIVE ACTION FOR CHANGE IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. The conference was hosted by PCCS Books, who say: “The presentation addresses evidence that highlights why…
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Scientific supremacy as an obstacle to establishing and sustaining interdisciplinary dialogue across knowledge paradigms in health care and medicine
The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
Medicalizing Masculinity
“[The] neurocentric model has not only discouraged a more context-dependent view of children, but in addition has allowed for the mental-health professions to act as if the share price of the pharmaceutical industry was more important than the well-being of…
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