As reported in ScienceDaily : “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed…
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In De-Medicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition , Chapter 5 – The Social Context of Paranoia – is written by clinical psychologist David Harper. It begins: “’Psychiatry’, suggests Hornstein … ‘is the most contested field in medicine’ and, as Bracken and Thomas … note, ‘it is…
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“Not all suffering is mental illness. Pretending it is raises false hopes and puts pressure on an already strained NHS”, writes Adrian Massey in The Guardian . His opinion piece begins: “I have a growing sense of unease about the Americanisation of…
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From the blog of the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network comes an article (dated 2016) called “ Luddite Health Promotion “, written by Ed Lord. The blog’s editors say: “… it seems clear that for authors such as Ed … there is something about…
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Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett says: “It’s something of a relief to see before you, written down in black and white, what you have known to be true for a long time: in this case, that antidepressant withdrawal symptoms aren’t, well,…
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