schizophrenia – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Neurodiversity Paradigm in Psychiatry: Robert Chapman, PhD

Author: Editorial 12th August 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “Is neurodivergence to be cured or is it a healthy part of our social ecology?“, this interview with philosopher Dr. Robert Chapman is conducted by psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab and has been published by the Psychiatric Times: “Aftab: Let’s start…
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ADHD, autism, Awais Aftab, disability studies, dyspraxia, neurodiversity, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, Robert Chapman, schizophrenia, social ecology

Remembering a Quarter of a Million “Mental Patients” Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s

Author: Editorial 29th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “In 1941, the staff of the Hadamar Psychiatric Institution—psychiatrists, nurses and secretaries—attended a ceremony and were each given a bottle of beer. The occasion was the murder of…
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chemical imbalance theory, Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Genetics, holocaust, Jeffrey Masson, John Read, medical model, psychiatry, Psychology Today, schizophrenia

Brief response to queries about the new All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service

Author: Editorial 29th June 2022 0 Comments

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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epigenetics, Genetics, Human Genome Project, Jonathan Gadsby, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatric genetics, schizophrenia, Wales

What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?

Author: Editorial 27th June 2022 0 Comments

“… [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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antidepressants, antipsychotics, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, lithium, Mad in America, Nassir Ghaemi, placebo effect, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Want to Understand Delusions? Listen to the People Who Have Them

Author: Editorial 20th June 2022 0 Comments

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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delusions, Grace Huckins, neuroscience, personal narrative, Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale, psychosis, qualitative research, Research, Rosa Ritunnano, schizophrenia, Sohee Park, Wired

People with psychosis can heal by rebuilding their life stories

Author: Editorial 2nd May 2022 0 Comments

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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Henry R. Cowan, insight therapy, narrative identity, narrative structure, personal narrative, Psyche, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, schizophrenia

Schizophrenia: A Scientific Delusion?

Author: Editorial 31st March 2022 0 Comments

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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books, Mary Boyle, psychiatry, schizophrenia

Intensive Home Treatment for Acute Mental Disorders: An Alternative to Hospitalization

Author: Editorial 18th March 2022 0 Comments

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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acute mental illness, affective psychosis, David Heath, intensive home treatment (IHT), Mad in America, psychosis, Research, schizophrenia, severe depression

Skepticism, Psychosis, and Hallucinations as Evidence for Our Beliefs

Author: Editorial 31st January 2022 0 Comments

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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Bradley Astra Aldridge, Bradley Astra Aldridge has been published on the website of the BC Hearing Voices Network, enactive psychiatry, hearing voices, objectivity, schizophrenia, subjectivity, trauma-informed approaches

Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia

Author: Editorial 5th January 2022 0 Comments

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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anxiety, depression, diagnostic labelling, history of psychiatry, John Read, psychiatry, Psychology Today, schizophrenia