This article by Jonathan Gadsby has been published by the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network. It begins: “Thank you to all those who have been in touch about this. It would be wrong to say that the Critical Mental Health Nurses’…
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“… [Nassir] Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, concluded that psychiatric drugs, except for lithium, do not provide a long-term benefit and thus should mostly be prescribed for short-term relief of symptoms.“ This article by Robert Whitaker has…
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This article by Grace Huckins is subtitled “A small group of schizophrenia researchers thinks that personal narratives can tell us what test scores and brain scans can’t”. It has been published by Wired. It begins: “FOR THE FIRST decades of Sohee Park’s…
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This article by Henry R. Cowan has been published on the Psyche website. Although it uses the scientifically meaningless term “schizophrenia”, it nonetheless has valuable things to say. It begins: “What would you say if I asked you to tell the story…
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This book has been written by clinical psychologist Dr. Mary Boyle. The publishers say: “The idea of ‘schizophrenia’ as a disease has become profoundly influential both within the medical profession and amongst the general public. So strong is this idea that…
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This article by David Heath has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “In 1978, I became the medical director of a general hospital psychiatric unit serving the twin cities of Kitchener/Waterloo in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Over the next four…
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This essay by Bradley Astra Aldridge has been published on the website of the BC Hearing Voices Network. It begins: “Sextus Empiricus was a physician and ancient philosopher who argued that human beings should be suspicious of our capacity for knowledge,…
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Subtitled “A brief history of an archetypal psychiatric diagnosis”, this article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “During the pandemic, increased incidences of distress can be portrayed as proliferations of mental illnesses such as ‘Depressive…
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This article by David Shariatmadari was published in The Guardian (2013). It begins: “‘Do you feel you have to agree with what most of the people round you believe?’ ‘Well, if I don’t I usually land up in hospital.’ It is…
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This opinion piece by Ruth Cooper, John Mason, John Richardson, and Joanna Moncrieff has been published in the journal Psychosis. The abstract says: “The development of severe mental health conditions is strongly linked to our environments, particularly experiences of trauma and adversity….
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