Richard Bentall

Mental Health | Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman and more

In this 28 minute video from The Institute of Arts and Ideas, “Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman, Patricia Casey, Dinesh Bhugra, Havi Carel, Richard Bentall and Ann John discuss the complexities of mental health”:

A History of Delusions

This excellent podcast (57 minutes) from the BBC explores many different aspects of delusions, including some of their causes, and some ways of best helping those who experience them. Presented by clinical psychologist Prof. Daniel Freeman, the podcast’s coverage also includes:…
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ECT is a classic failure of evidence-based medicine

This Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry has hosted a guest-blog by Prof. Richard Bentall, who writes: “In a discipline to which controversy is no stranger, there are few controversies guaranteed to generate as much heat as that surrounding the benefits and costs…
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A Straight-talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems

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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The Life Scientific: Richard Bentall on the causes of mental ill health

As part of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific series, this 41 minute interview features Prof. Richard Bentall (Professor of Clinical Psychology at Liverpool University). The programme makers say: “For a long time people who heard voices or suffered paranoid delusions were thought…
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Why did I go mad?

This excellent Horizon programme (BBC2) follows people living with voices, hallucinations and paranoia to explore the causes.   For hundreds of years, psychiatry has treated voices and hallucinations as an enemy – regarding them as ‘insanity’ or ‘madness’ and seeing…
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