psychosis

“Diagnostic Dissent”: Experiences of Individuals Who Disagreed With Their Diagnosis

“Researchers investigate the first-person experiences of people who disagreed with their psychiatric diagnosis of psychosis.“ This article has been written by Zenobia Morrill and published (2018) on Mad in America. It begins: “Faith Forgione, a student at Fordham University, NY, recently…
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Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

The subtitle of this book is “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”. It has been written by psychiatrists Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas. The publishers say: “How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the…
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Listening to the Voices People Hear: Auditory Hallucinations Beyond a Diagnostic Framework

This research paper has been written by Dr. Eleanor Longden and published in the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. The abstract cited in ResearchGate says: “While voice hearing (auditory verbal hallucinations) is closely allied with psychosis/schizophrenia, it is well-established that the experience is…
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Bad things happen and can drive you crazy

“Of 701 people who had taken antipsychotics, far more (76%) believed their difficulties were the result of life events and circumstances than subscribed to a ‘medical model’ perspective (17%).” As published in the journal Psychiatry Research, the full title of…
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How Drug Company Money Has Corrupted Psychiatry

“After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association. The major reason for this action is my belief that I am…
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My Baby, Psychosis & Me: A lesson in how not to make a documentary about mental health

In this article – as posted on her Behind the Label website – Rachel Waddingham reviews a recent BBC documentary about “postpartum psychosis”. She writes: “Earlier this year, after my own miscarriage, I settled down on the sofa to watch ‘ My Baby, Psychosis & Me
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Depression and Me

In “Depression and Me” –  a 1 hour TV programme from the BBC – Alastair Campbell talks candidly about his experiences of living with depression. And after 30 years of taking antidepressant drugs that haven’t stopped his depressions, he also explores whether radical…
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