The publishers describe this book (2014) as being an “… urgently important critique of the widespread medicalization of normality. Anyone living a full, rich life experiences ups and downs, stresses, disappointments, sorrows, and setbacks. Today, however, millions of people who…
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From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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This article from Brett J. Deacon (University of Wyoming) was published in 2013 in the Clinical Psychology Review . The article’s abstract says: “The biomedical model posits that mental disorders are brain diseases and emphasizes pharmacological treatment to target presumed biological abnormalities. A…
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The publishers of this 2011 book (by Charles L. Whitfield) say: “… It exposes the pseudo-science behind modern biological psychiatry that misdiagnoses people who have painful emotional, psychological and behavioral symptoms as being ‘mentally ill’ and then mistreats them with…
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From Peter J. Gordon’s Hole Ousia website: “I noticed this ‘Special Article’ published in the October 2015 edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry. It details a novel antipsychotic medication called Lurasidone (trade name Latuda). … I would anticipate that this is…
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In this 15 minute video , Rai (Rachel) Waddingham “explores the mantra, woven deep into psychiatric practice – the belief that we should neither confront nor collude with beliefs that are seen as ‘delusional’.” In the video, she shares some of her thoughts…
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Derek Summerfield, writing in the Opinion section of the British Medical Journal (February 2018), says: “The Royal College of Psychiatrists and the media routinely state that there is an ‘epidemic’ of mental disorder—1 in 4 people in the UK, with 3 in 4 said not to get…
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Social prescriptions are prescriptions (from health practitioners) that are not biomedical or overtly psychological. See, for instance, Can you prescribe nature? and Bromley-by-Bow Centre and the future of mental health treatment . Social prescribing mostly involves a variety of activities that are typically provided by voluntary and community sector organisations. Examples include volunteering,…
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“A University of Liverpool researcher has shown that thoughts of suicide, sexual difficulties and emotional numbness as a result of anti-depressants may be more widespread than previously thought. In a survey of 1,829 people who had been prescribed anti-depressants, the…
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