Researchers Call on Psychiatry to Abandon Biomedical Framework
history of psychiatry
A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression
This research article by Peter Sterling (Professor of Neuroscience) has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Abstract Neuroscientists widely hypothesize that ‘depression’ arises from a brain disorder caused by some defect in a specific neural pathway. If so, we might identify…
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Causality in Mental Disturbance: A Review of the Neuroscience
“To be clear: there is no neuroscience to suggest that any mental function would be improved by ablating or stimulating a particular structure in the prefrontal cortex or its associated subcortical regions. To the contrary, what we know of the intrinsic organization…
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How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers
On the Heels of Ignorance: Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
Not doomed: sociology and psychiatry, and ignorance and expertise
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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Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes
Psychiatry & Its Discontents
This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull…
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