Time for Some Serious Thought about ‘Antidepressants’
psychiatry
The Illusions of Psychiatry
At the Forefront of Medicine: My Summer Involuntary Hospitalization
Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia
Overdiagnosis: it’s official
“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
Psychiatry Past & Present
This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes two lecture videos from Dr. David Healy (professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers…
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Autistic Hull man goes home after 15 years in hospital
While Psychiatry Slept: Reawakening the Imagination in Therapy
This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. George Mecouch. The publishers say: “Where has the imagination gone in current psychiatric practice? While Psychiatry Slept dares to ask this question. It challenges psychiatry’s literalistic theories and demonstrates how the imagination is always revealing…
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Social psychiatry could stem the rising tide of mental illness
This article by Prof. Mathew Smith has been published by The Conversation. It begins: “Nearly 400 million people are affected by mental illness, according to the World Health Organization . Depression, alone, afflicts nearly 300 million people. It is no surprise that concern about mental health is sky…
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