JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”
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It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even exist?
This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC ’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics. In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder —…
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I don’t have ADHD, but three private clinics say I do
What is formulation in psychiatry?
“When assessing the same patient, two experts may produce two similar summaries, but two different formulations. This is the fundamental difference: a summary is descriptive, whereas a formulation is analytical and evaluative… formulating a case with clarity and precision is…
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One Flew Over the Scientific Consensus’ Nest—The Story of Dr. Ophir and ADHD
Psychiatrogenesis (Whither Psychiatry or Reform)
Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach
This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide Note
Lost Poetry: Psychiatry and Creativity
The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress
