psychiatry

Childhood Trauma Is Not a Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 15th March 2023 0 Comments

This article by Tabitha Ferguson has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “I was born in 1982 into a divided family and grew up below the poverty level. My mom and dad divorced before I was a year old,…
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Childhood trauma, children and adolescents, Mad in America, psychiatry, Tabitha Ferguson, trauma

Misreporting Results and Publication Bias Common in Psychiatry Research

Author: Editorial 10th March 2023 0 Comments

This report by Zenobia Morrill has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “A new paper in Schizophrenia Bulletin presents evidence that publication bias and outcome reporting bias in psychiatry research are common and concerning. These biases overestimate the efficacy of psychiatric…
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bipolar, Mad in America, Outcome reporting bias, psychiatry, publication bias, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research, schizophrenia, Stanley Medical Research Institute, Zenobia Morrill

Are women really more mentally ill than men? As a psychologist, I’m not so sure

Author: Editorial 9th March 2023 0 Comments

“Women are disproportionately diagnosed with mental problems. But what if the crisis is one not of chemical imbalances, but power imbalances?” This article by Sanah Ahsan has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “In the UK, being a woman means…
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), chemical imbalance theory, Culture & Society, psychiatry, Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian, women

Acute Religious Experiences: Madness, Psychosis and Religious Studies

Author: Editorial 6th March 2023 0 Comments

This book has been written by Dr. Richard Saville-Smith. The publishers say: “This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical…
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anthropology, book, books, dissociation, DSM, madness, psychiatry, psychosis, religious studies, Richard Saville-Smith, schizophrenia

Running Therapy For Depression as Effective as Antidepressants Without the Health Risks

Author: Editorial 3rd March 2023 0 Comments

This report by Richard Sears has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “An article soon to be published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that while running therapy and antidepressants have similar effects on depressive symptoms, running therapy is much…
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antidepressants, depression, Journal of Affective Disorders, Mad in America, physical exercise, psychiatry, Richard Sears, running therapy

‘The medical model has presided over four decades of flat-lining outcomes’

Author: Editorial 1st March 2023 0 Comments

“Author, anthropologist and psychotherapist Dr James Davies tells Fauzia Khan about his journey into the field of mental health and his work as co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry.” The transcript of this interview (conducted by Fauzia Khan) with Dr….
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antidepressants, Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, depression, Fauzia Khan, James Davies, psychiatry, The Psychologist

‘This feels more like spin-the-bottle than science’: my mission to find a proper diagnosis – and treatment – for my son’s psychosis

Author: Editorial 27th February 2023 0 Comments

“Tanya Frank’s son Zach has lived with mental illness since he was a teenager. But after years journeying through the traditional healthcare system, could radical alternatives save him from an endless cycle of hospital stays and drugs?” This article by Tanya…
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akathisia, Open Dialogue, psychiatry, psychosis, Tanya Frank, The Guardian

Is Psychiatry Working?

Author: Editorial 24th February 2023 0 Comments

This series of 30 minute podcasts from BBC Radio 4 has six episodes: Crisis : Writer Horatio Clare and psychiatrist Femi Oyebode discuss psychiatric crisis care with patients and clinicians. Detention : How do we treat people, often against their will, under…
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audio, BBC, BBC Radio 4, coercive psychiatry, diagnostic labelling, involuntary detention, psychiatry, psychotherapy

Can The Psychopathologized Speak?

Author: Editorial 23rd February 2023 0 Comments

This post from Dr. Awais Aftab has been published on his blog-site Psychiatry at the Margins. It begins: “The latest issue of the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology contains my commentary, ‘Can The Psychopathologized Speak?: Notes on Social Objectivity and Psychiatric Science.’…
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Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, Awais Aftab, Bennett Knox, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, philosophy of psychiatry, psychiatry, Psychiatry at the Margins, psychopathology, social objectivity

How a depression test devised by a Zoloft marketer became a crutch for a failing mental health system

Author: Editorial 22nd February 2023 0 Comments

This article by Olivia Goldhill has been published by Stat. It begins: “A bedrock of the U.S. mental health system — a nine-item questionnaire used to spot depression — began not with a doctor, but with a marketing man. Howard Kroplick,…
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antidepressants, depression, depression test, Howard Kroplick, Olivia Goldhill, Pfizer, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire, psychiatry, Stat, Zoloft

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