Sanah Ahsan – A New Vision for Mental Health

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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a coherent system

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), chemical imbalance theory, Culture & Society, psychiatry, Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian, women

I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health

Author: Editorial 7th September 2022 0 Comments

“Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person – and ignores the politics of their distress” This opinion piece by Sanah Ahsan has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “We are living, we’re told, through a ‘mental health crisis’ ….
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a coherent system

Culture & Society, medical model, mental health, Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian

Young, British and Depressed

Author: Editorial 4th November 2019 0 Comments

In July of this year (2019) a TV broadcast titled “Young, British and Depressed” was screened on Channel 4 in the UK. It was produced by Dispatches, an investigative current affairs programme. In the broadcast, reporter Sanah Ahsan explores Britain’s youth depression crisis, to…
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collaborative practice

anxiety, Channel 4, children and adolescents, depression, diagnosis, Eleanor Morgan, medical model, overdiagnosis, Sanah Ahsan, The Guardian, TV