psychiatry

Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree

Author: Editorial 4th March 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The New Statesman. It begins: “One afternoon in December 2004, Samantha* left her house in northern England and walked to the nearby river. She tried not to think about her five young…
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Critical Psychiatry Network, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatry, Sami Timimi, Sophie McBain, The New Statesman

Depression: why drugs and electricity are not the answer

Author: Editorial 3rd March 2022 0 Comments

This article from Prof. John Read (clinical psychologist) and Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (psychiatrist) has been published in Psychological Medicine. The abstract says: “The dominant view within mental health services and research suggests that feeling depressed is a kind of medical illness,…
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depression, ECT, Joanna Moncrieff, John Read, psychiatry, Psychological Medicine

Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End

Author: Editorial 28th February 2022 0 Comments

This article by Robert Whitaker has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In its May 25, 2021 issue, JAMA published a report on the comparative efficacy of two medications for treating preschoolers diagnosed with ADHD. Both methylphenidate and guanfacine were deemed to…
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ADHD, children and adolescents, evidence-based, Genetics, Mad in America, neuroscience, preschoolers, psychiatry, Robert Whitaker

Just a pill? How psychiatry pathologises female experience

Author: Editorial 25th February 2022 0 Comments

This article , by Victoria Smith, has been published on The Critic magazine website. It begins: “Photos of ghost children decorated the walls of the adolescent psychiatric unit. ‘Patients from the olden days,’ staff would tell us. ‘They could have been…
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diagnostic labelling, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, The Critic, Victoria Smith, women

Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

Author: Editorial 24th February 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Jessica Taylor. The publishers say: “Angry, opinionated, mouthy, aggressive, hysterical, mad, disordered, crazy, psycho, delusional, borderline, hormonal . . . Women have long been pathologized, locked up and medicated for not conforming to whichever…
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books, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), diagnostic labelling, domestic violence, Jessica Taylor, patriarchy, personality disorder, psychiatry, trauma, violence, violence against women, women

It’s Time for Us to Stop Being So Defensive About Criticisms of Psychiatry

Author: Editorial 14th February 2022 0 Comments

This article by psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab has been published in the Psychiatric Times. It begins: “I read the article “ It’s Time for Us to Stop Waffling About Psychiatry ”2 by Daniel Morehead, MD, with great interest, particularly since it makes frequent references to some of my work in Psychiatric…
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Awais Aftab, coercive psychiatry, Daniel Morehead, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, medical model, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, reductionism

Book of Lamentations

Author: Editorial 10th February 2022 0 Comments

“DSM-5 arranges its various strains of madness solely in terms of the behaviors exhibited. This is a recurring theme in the novel, while any consideration of the mind itself is entirely absent. In its place we’re given diagnoses such as ‘frotteurism,’…
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American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, dystopian novels, psychiatry, Sam Kriss, The New Inquiry

Psychiatry’s Harmful Conflicts of Interest

Author: Editorial 26th January 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “Sunshine” legislation is ineffective against widespread financial entanglement, this article from Dr. Christopher Lane is written within an American context and has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “When Congress passed the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in 2010,…
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Anatomy of an Industry, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Christopher Lane, Physician Payments Sunshine Act, psychiatry, Psychology Today, Robert Whitaker, USA

Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

Author: Editorial 21st January 2022 0 Comments

This book (2013) has been written by Dr. James Davies. The publishers say: “Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year – and why, without…
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books, clinical drugs trials, diagnostic labelling, James Davies, placebo effect, psychiatry

World needs “revolution” in mental health care – UN rights expert

Author: Editorial 17th January 2022 0 Comments

This news item comes from the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. It begins: “GENEVA (6 June 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called for a sea change in mental…
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biomedical model, Dainius Pūras, psychiatry, UN Human Rights Council, United Nations, United Nations Special Rapporteur

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