diagnosis – A New Vision for Mental Health

A cure to all mental illnesses?

Author: Editorial 13th January 2023 0 Comments

“In one study in Canada, ‘misdiagnosis’”’ of psychiatric labels was found to be 65.9% for major depressive disorder, 92.7% for bipolar disorder, 85.8% for panic disorder, 71.0% for generalized anxiety disorder, and 97.8% for social anxiety disorder.” This article by Mikaela…
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diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, Essentia Foundation, Jhean Paul Varela Carrero, Mikaela Marinis

Diagnosis as Self-Understanding & Self-Alienation: what you need to know about your diagnosis

Author: Editorial 30th November 2022 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his Psychiatry at the Margins website. Although it’s very much open to question as to what extent the views expressed actually inform mainstream psychiatric practice, the article is nonetheless well worth…
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Awais Aftab, diagnosis, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP), Nancy McWilliams, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins

The big idea: Is it your personality, or a disorder?

Author: Editorial 3rd November 2021 0 Comments

“Psychological diagnoses offer an easy way in to understanding character – but our habit of using them comes at a cost” This article by Lucy Foulkes has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “It takes around 30 seconds to diagnose…
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diagnosis, disorder, Lucy Foulkes, personality, The Guardian

Do we really need the diagnostic model of distress?

Author: Editorial 26th March 2021 0 Comments

This ASC It! podcast and video – from the ASC Wellbeing Clinic – features a conversation with Dr Lucy Johnstone (Clinical Psychologist):

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ASC Wellbeing Clinic, audio, diagnosis, diagnostic labelling, diagnostic model of distress, Lucy Johnstone, videos

Mainstream mental health services are a disaster

Author: Editorial 9th September 2020 0 Comments

“They are a ‘busted flush’, long past their sell-by date, says consultant psychiatrist, Dr Sami Timimi.” In an article on the uncancelled website, Sami Timimi writes: “Hardly a week goes by without another headline about the epidemic of mental health problems…
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Culture & Society, depression, diagnosis, diagnostic labelling, Sami Timimi, uncancelled

“Diagnostic Dissent”: Experiences of Individuals Who Disagreed With Their Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 25th June 2020 0 Comments

“Researchers investigate the first-person experiences of people who disagreed with their psychiatric diagnosis of psychosis.“ This article has been written by Zenobia Morrill and published (2018) on Mad in America. It begins: “Faith Forgione, a student at Fordham University, NY, recently…
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diagnosis, diagnostic labelling, Faith Forgione, Mad in America, psychiatry, psychosis, Research, Zenobia Morrill

Young, British and Depressed

Author: Editorial 4th November 2019 0 Comments

In July of this year (2019) a TV broadcast titled “Young, British and Depressed” was screened on Channel 4 in the UK. It was produced by Dispatches, an investigative current affairs programme. In the broadcast, reporter Sanah Ahsan explores Britain’s youth depression crisis, to…
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anxiety, Channel 4, children and adolescents, depression, diagnosis, Eleanor Morgan, medical model, overdiagnosis, Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian, TV

The diagnosis question

Author: Editorial 1st November 2019 0 Comments

In this article for Prospect Magazine, Eleanor Morgan writes: “Increasingly, mental health problems are labelled as an illness like any other. But can a focus on diagnoses, rather than experiences, harm as well as help? What is mental health? Despite the…
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diagnosis, Eleanor Morgan, labels, pathologisation, Prospect Magazine, psychiatric diagnoses, psychiatry

Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs

Author: Editorial 31st July 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory and David Cohen. The publishers say: “Mad Science argues that the fundamental claims of modern American psychiatry are based on misconceived, flawed, and distorted science. The authors address multiple paradoxes in American…
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books, coercion, David Cohen, diagnosis, DSM, history of psychiatry, mad science, pharmaceutical drugs, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Stuart Kirk, Tomi Gomory

Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: clinically and scientifically irrelevant

Author: Editorial 21st March 2019 0 Comments

The abstract of this article (written by David Cohen and David Jacobs, published in Debates in Neuroscience ) says: “This contribution to the ‘antidepressant debate’ focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the…
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adverse drug reactions, David Cohen, David Jacobs, Debates in Neuroscience, diagnosis, disease model, pharmaceutical industry, placebo response, psychoactive drugs, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research