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The Mental Fight Club write: “The UK mental healthcare system is deemed by many to be failing its users, and lauded by many more as one of the best in the world. As a community of people who have journeyed…
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This BBC TV broadcast reports on the strategy to make living itself an illness and patients of everyone of us. The programme website says: “In the late seventies, Henry Gadsden, the CEO of a large pharmaceutical company, told a business…
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Concerning this book – edited by John Read and Jacqui Dillon – the publishers (Routledge) say: “Are hallucinations and delusions really symptoms of an illness called ‘schizophrenia’? Are mental health problems really caused by chemical imbalances and genetic predispositions? Are…
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This is an extract from a blog post by David Gilbert (part of his Future Patient Blog site, where you can find musings about the possibilities of patient-led and user-led healthcare): “… Why don’t we get it (1)? The other day, a friend…
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Learn how a psychological understanding of our emotions and behaviour gives us new ways to improve mental health and well-being: this free, online course is available from FutureLearn (the Open University). The course description says that: “Over six weeks, you will explore…
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What if psychiatry recognised that schizophrenia does not exist? How might diagnostic categories (left over from the asylum era) be replaced by spectrums of experience that show how psychotic experiences can also be normal? What if services were oriented around individuals, not the statistical groups of “evidence…
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On the Uplift Connect site, Jonathan Davis writes that a “new perspective on addiction is emerging”. He cites Johann Hari, author of Chasing The Scream (The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs), who “recently captured widespread public interest with his Ted talk…
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The publishers of this book (by Christopher Lane, published 2009) say: “In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical…
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Take a new and different look at mental health via this free online course – Challenging ideas in mental health – from the Open University’s OpenLearn . The course invites you to think differently about life’s dilemmas by taking account of the views of all…
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