How did mental health become so biomedical? The progressive erosion of social determinants in historical psychiatric admission registers
Peter Kinderman
A proposal to introduce formal recording of psychosocial adversities associated with mental health using ICD-10 codes
Is It Time to Reconsider the ‘Disease Model’ of Mental Health?
A Manifesto for Mental Health: Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health Care
This book has been written by Prof. Peter Kinderman. The publishers say: “A Manifesto for Mental Health presents a radically new and distinctive outlook that critically examines the dominant ‘disease-model’ of mental health care. Incorporating the latest findings from both biological neuroscience…
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The New Laws of Psychology: Why Nature and Nurture Alone Can’t Explain Human Behaviour
Psychiatric diagnosis ‘scientifically meaningless’
As reported in ScienceDaily : “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed…
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A Prescription for Psychiatry: Why We Need a Whole New Approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Psychology and Mental Health: Beyond Nature and Nurture
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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