psychiatry

Head First: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of Mind and Body

Author: Editorial 4th July 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Alistair Santhouse. The publishers say: “What does it mean to be well? Is it something in our body? Or, is it rather something subjective – something of the mind? In this profound collection of…
Read more

collaborative practice

Alistair Santhouse, books, Clients & Patients, emotions, medical model, psychiatry, state of mind, subjectivity

Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

Author: Editorial 30th June 2022 0 Comments

This book is from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for…
Read more

a coherent system

books, England, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, United States

What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?

Author: Editorial 27th June 2022 0 Comments

“… [Nassir] Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, concluded that psychiatric drugs, except for lithium, do not provide a long-term benefit and thus should mostly be prescribed for short-term relief of symptoms.“ This article by Robert Whitaker has…
Read more

a coherent system

antidepressants, antipsychotics, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, lithium, Mad in America, Nassir Ghaemi, placebo effect, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 13th June 2022 0 Comments

This paper by L. McHenry has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The abstract says: “The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this…
Read more

a coherent system

antidepressants, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, L. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, SSRIs

He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’

Author: Editorial 6th June 2022 0 Comments

The Mad in America website cites a New York Times‘ article , which begins: “On the second day of the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in 1972, something extraordinary happened. While the assembled psychiatrists, mostly white men in dark…
Read more

a coherent system

American Psychiatric Association, history of psychiatry, homosexuality, Mad in America, New York Times, psychiatry

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

Author: Editorial 23rd May 2022 0 Comments

This review by Marco Ramos of two books – Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness and Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness – has been published in the Boston Review. It begins: “In 1990 President George Bush announced that ‘a new era of discovery’ was ‘dawning in brain research.’ Over the next several decades…
Read more

collaborative practice

Andrew Scull, Anne Harrington, books, Boston Review, Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, history of psychiatry, Marco Ramos, Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness, psychiatry

NHS Data: 41% Rise in Antidepressant Prescribing to Children Aged 5-12 Since 2015

Author: Editorial 20th May 2022 0 Comments

This report comes from Mad in America. It begins: “From The Pharmaceutical Journal: ‘NHS data obtained via a freedom of information request, provided on 10 August 2021, show a steady increase over the past six years in the number of unique…
Read more

collaborative practice

antidepressants, children and adolescents, Kirsten Shukla, Mad in America, NHS, psychiatry, The Pharmaceutical Journal

Easier than curing a toothache? The Story of Lobotomy

Author: Editorial 16th May 2022 0 Comments

This podcast is from the BBC. The producers say: “It is remembered as the most barbaric medical procedure of the 20th century, but lobotomy was once hailed as a miracle cure. Claire Prentice explores the archives to uncover the hidden history…
Read more

a coherent system

audio, BBC, Claire Prentice, Egas Moniz, history of psychiatry, Howard Dully, lobotomy, psychiatry, Wylie McKissock

Education for critical practice in mental health

Author: Editorial 9th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Lydia Sapouna has been published in the journal Critical and Radical Social Work. The article summary says: “This article discusses an approach to mental health education that aims to prepare students to become critical practitioners with the vision…
Read more

a coherent system

Critical and Radical Social Work, critical practice, diagnostic labelling, identity, Lydia Sapouna, mental health training, power, psychiatry, service users, social work education

Overuse of Psychiatric Drugs is Worsening Public Mental Health, Doctor Argues

Author: Editorial 5th May 2022 0 Comments

This article by Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In a new article published in the Journal of Addictive Disorders and Mental Health, Jose Luis Turabian, a professor of medicine at Complutense University in Spain, explores the biological…
Read more

collaborative practice

Jose Luis Turabian, Journal of Addictive Disorders and Mental Health, Mad in America, neurobiology, psychiatry, psychotropic drugs, Research, Richard Sears

Looking for fresh articles?