Renaming schizophrenia: a Japanese perspective
a coherent system
In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed as autistic. It’s a clinical catastrophe
Theoretical Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model of Mental Disorder Labeling: Contemporary Frameworks, Taxonomies, and Models
Ivor Browne rightly lauded – but we are a long way from his vision and values
This article has been published by Mad in Ireland. It begins: “The great Ivor Browne, who many will know for his humane approach to human distress, died this week to widespread plaudits from the media. This is right and fitting for a…
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Seven reasons why most Major Depression is probably not a brain disorder
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: Antidepressants, Benzodiazepines, Gabapentinoids and Z-drugs
Authored by Mark Horowitz, and David M. Taylor, the world’s first antidepressants deprescribing guidelines for psychiatry are now available. The publishers say: “Comprehensive resource describing guidelines for safely reducing or stopping (deprescribing) antidepressants, benzodiazepines, gabapentinoids and z-drugs for patients, including step-by-step guidance…
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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic
This report by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “The decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiat r ic Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey. In the article, Torrey reviews…
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The social determinants of mental health and disorder: evidence, prevention and recommendations
Saving psychiatry from itself: will young psychiatrists choose authoritarian power or authoritative respect?
This editorial comment from John Read appears in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. It begins: “In their important paper, ‘Images of psychiatry and psychiatrists’, Stuart et al. 1 document the negative beliefs about psychiatrists and psychiatric treatments held by other medical disciplines in 15…
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Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis
