Sophie McBain

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison

Author: Editorial 22nd March 2024 0 Comments

“An urgent and persuasive warning about the toll of ‘phone-based childhoods’” This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “At the start of the 2010s, rates of teenage mental illness took a sharp upward turn, and…
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a wellbeing society

anxiety, children and adolescents, Jonathan Haidt, smartphones, social media, Sophie McBain, The Guardian

Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree

Author: Editorial 4th March 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sophie McBain has been published in The New Statesman. It begins: “One afternoon in December 2004, Samantha* left her house in northern England and walked to the nearby river. She tried not to think about her five young…
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a coherent system

Critical Psychiatry Network, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, Lucy Johnstone, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatry, Sami Timimi, Sophie McBain, The New Statesman

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The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison

Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy? Psychiatrists can’t agree