a coherent system – Page 8 – A New Vision for Mental Health

Mental Health | Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman and more

Author: Editorial 19th July 2023 0 Comments

In this 28 minute video from The Institute of Arts and Ideas, “Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman, Patricia Casey, Dinesh Bhugra, Havi Carel, Richard Bentall and Ann John discuss the complexities of mental health”:

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Ann John, Caroline Hickman, David Healy, Dinesh Bhugra, Havi Carel, Lucy Johnstone, Patricia Casey, Richard Bentall, Simon Baron-Cohen, The Institute of Arts and Ideas, videos

Indicative Trauma Impact Manual ITIM: ITIM for Professionals

Author: Editorial 17th July 2023 1 Comment

This manual – written by Jessica Taylor and Jaimi Shrive – is now available for purchase. The publishers say: “A non-diagnostic, trauma-informed guide to emotion, thought, and behaviour. This must-have manual presents the first trauma-informed, non-diagnostic alternative to other manuals of…
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anti-oppressive practice, books, Jaimi Shrive, Jessica Taylor, New Approaches, non-diagnostic approaches, trauma, trauma-informed approaches, victim focus

Psychiatry Killed Tuva Andersson, Whose Problem Was Anxiety

Author: Editorial 13th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Peter Gøtzsche has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Tuva Andersson was 37 years old when she committed suicide in 2019 in her apartment where she lived alone in Sweden. Her mother, Karina Hjelm, wanted…
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anxiety, diagnostic labelling, forced treatment, Mad in America, Peter Gøtzsche, Polypharmacy, psychiatry, suicide, Sweden, Tuva Andersson

Overmedicalization of young people’s distress is undermining and disempowering families

Author: Editorial 7th July 2023 0 Comments

This article by Emma Fergusson, Shona Reed-Purvis and Lucy Foulkes has been published in Nature. It begins: “Cases of mild or transient distress in young people are increasingly viewed as problems that require medical intervention. As CAMHS clinicians, we argue that…
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children and adolescents, Clients & Patients, Emma Fergusson, fa, Lucy Foulkes, Nature Mental Health, Outcome Orientated Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services (OO-CAMHS), Shona Reed-Purvis

Changing the topic does not change the facts

Author: Editorial 30th June 2023 0 Comments

This letter to The Lancet Psychiatry (journal) comes from Dr. Jonanathan Shedler. It begins: “In a Comment published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues 1 wrote that I encouraged psychotherapists to ignore new practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because…
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CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, counseling, counselling, Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Talking Therapies, The Lancet Psychiatry

Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th June 2023 0 Comments

The producers of this 50 minute video say: “‘Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,’ Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because…
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Dr. Marcia Angell, drug trials, evidence-based medicine, Jason Fung, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, videos

The one book that everybody in health care ought to read

Author: Editorial 26th June 2023 0 Comments

This review concerns a book – Limits to Medicine: the Expropriation of Health, by Ivan Illich – that has relevance to both physical and mental healthcare. The review is 20+ years old and comes from Dr. Richard Smith (who was then…
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books, iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, medicalisation, Richard Smith

The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2023 0 Comments

This “ open letter by healthcare professionals ” calls for specialist NHS services to support patients harmed by taking prescription medications. Published in the British Medical Journal, the letter begins: “This week, BBC1’s Panorama drew sharp attention to the problem of prescribed drug dependence and…
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antidepressants, BBC Panorama, benzodiazepines, BMJ, British Medical Journal, drug dependency, drug withdrawal, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Public Health England

The Antidepressant Story

Author: Editorial 21st June 2023 0 Comments

This 1 hour TV programme comes from the BBC’s Panorama team (investigative journalism unit). The programme makers say: “In the UK, around one in seven now take an antidepressant. Globally they have made the pharmaceutical industry billions. When the current generation…
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antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, BBC Panorama, Pfizer, pharmaceutical industry, Sertraline, videos

Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

Author: Editorial 19th June 2023 0 Comments

This article by Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “We recently published a paper finding that the serotonin hypothesis of depression (the idea that depression is caused by low serotonin or reduced serotonin activity)…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, Joanna Moncrieff, Mad in America, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Research, serotonin