International Perspectives on Mental Health: Critical issues across the lifespan
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Psychiatric diagnosis ‘scientifically meaningless’
As reported in ScienceDaily : “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed…
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The Great Psychiatry Scam: One Shrink’s Personal Journey
Psychology’s Ghosts: The Crisis in the Profession and the Way Back
Our Psychiatric Future
This book has been written (October 2018) by Nikolas Rose. The publishers say: “Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an…
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The Philosophy of Complexity
The emerging field of Complexity Science is highly relevant to the ecological paradigm for mental health that we are proposing. In The Philosophy of Complexity , Chris Lucas identifies three main strands in complexity thought: Systems thinking (incorporating cybernetics) which relates to non-specific systems. Organic thinking (including evolution) relating…
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The Pursuit of Objectivity in Psychology
Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness
Written by Robert Whitaker, the first edition of this book appeared in 2010. The publishers say: “In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally…
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Mental Health Screening: Public Service or Dangerous Marketing?
Writing (within an American context) in the March 2019 Bulletin of the International Society for Ethical Psychology & Psychiatry, Chuck Ruby says: “In 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urged that children be screened for autism as early as three years…
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Pennsylvania’s Mentally Ill Spend Years in Jail Without Trial or Treatment
The article cited below comes from The Daily Beast and is written by Christopher Moraff. Although set within a US-context and in relation to one particular US-state, it also has relevance to similar issues within many other countries concerning mental ill-health and prison/judicial…
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