psychiatry

The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

Author: Editorial 11th June 2021 0 Comments

“”Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”Dr. R. D. Laing There are many people no longer with us whose ideas, actions, writings, thoughts (etc) feed into a modern-day new vision for mental health. R. D. Laing is…
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authenticity, books, existentialism, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, R. D. Laing, schizophrenia

‘They saw me as mad and needing to be medicated’ | Modern Masculinity

Author: Editorial 31st May 2021 0 Comments

This 14 minute video comes from The Guardian. The producers say: “In this episode of Modern Masculinity, journalist Iman Amrani speaks to Chris, who after being diagnosed with schizophrenia spent a long time in the mental health system. They discuss medication,…
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anger, antipsychotics, compassion, emotions, empathy, Iman Amrani, listening, madness, masculinity, psychiatry, psychosis, Rufus May, schizophrenia, The Guardian, videos, warrior archetype, working class

Letter of Resignation from the American Psychiatric Association

Author: Editorial 24th May 2021 0 Comments

Dr. Lauren Mosher was clinical professor of psychiatry and an expert on ‘schizophrenia’. For 12 years he was chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia in the (American) National Institute of Mental Health. He spent his professional career advocating…
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a coherent system

American Psychiatric Association, Lauren Mosher, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, Soteria, Wikipedia

Soteria: Through Madness to Deliverance

Author: Editorial 21st May 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by social worker Voyce Hendrix and psychiatrist Dr. Lauren Mosher, with Dr. Deborah Fort. The publishers say: “This is the story of a special time, space, and place where young people diagnosed as ‘schizophrenic’ found a…
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Deborah Fort, Lauren Mosher, New Approaches, psychiatry, psychosis, schizophrenia, Soteria, Voyce Hendrix

DSM69: Dolly Sen’s Manual of Psychiatric Disorder

Author: Editorial 20th May 2021 0 Comments

Concerning this booklet , the publishers say: “Dolly Sen is a well known artist and activist working and exploring what it means to experience mental distress and the effects of being labelled with a psychiatric diagnosis. Her art is witty, humorous,…
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a coherent system

art, books, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, Dolly Sen, psychiatry

Psycho Politics

Author: Editorial 14th April 2021 0 Comments

This book by Peter Sedgwick, was first published back in 1982. The publishers say: “A classic in the field of mental health, one of the few credible critiques of the anti-psychiatry movement which retains its significance today, Psycho Politics includes scholarly…
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Alastair Kemp, books, Erving Goffman, Helen Spandler, Peter Sedgwick, psychiatry, R.D Laing, Rob Dellar, Thomas Szasz

There’s More To Life Than Happiness

Author: Editorial 9th April 2021 0 Comments

“I think it’s not just that you pursue a project beyond yourself because it will make you happy, but that you pursue a project beyond yourself because it makes suffering worthwhile. It’s not that you do these things because the…
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a wellbeing society

antidepressants, Ashley Frawley, diagnostic labelling, happiness, Mark Horowitz, meaning-making, psychiatry, Renegade Inc., Ross Ashcroft, videos, wellbeing

A Straight-talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems

Author: Editorial 5th April 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi (and edited by Richard Bentall & Pete Sanders). The publishers say: “Rates of diagnosis of psychiatric disorders such as ADHD, and the subsequent prescription of psychiatric drugs in children, have increased…
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ADHD, books, children, children and adolescents, diagnostic labelling, Pete Sanders, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Richard Bentall, Sami Timimi

Psychological Formulation as an Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis

Author: Editorial 2nd April 2021 0 Comments

“… we might be in the very strange position of admitting, as one psychiatrist has pointed out, that psychiatry is ‘something very hard to justify or defend—a medical specialty that does not treat medical illnesses’ …”Dr. Peter Breggin, 1993, p….
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a coherent system

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, formulation, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatry, team formulation

Insane Medicine: How the Mental Health Industry Creates Damaging Treatment Traps and How you can Escape Them

Author: Editorial 1st April 2021 0 Comments

This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Sami Timimi. The publishers say: “This book digs through the rotten undergrowth which fertilises the mental health industry. The level of failure and deceit is hard to believe. The diagnoses we use are…
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books, diagnostic labelling, overdiagnosis, psychiatry, resilience, Sami Timimi

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