An article signed by 29 psychiatrists in the British Journal of Psychiatry said (December 2012): “A series of editorials in this Journal have argued that psychiatry is in the midst of a crisis. The various solutions proposed would all involve a strengthening of psychiatry’s…
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“Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its ‘cures’ in the twentieth-century United States: from the…
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Having a diagnosis of schizophrenia is associated with a life-expectancy reduction of nearly two decades. By some criteria, only one in seven people recover. Despite heralded advances in treatments, staggeringly, the proportion of people who recover hasn’t increased over time….
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Dr. Pat Bracken, a consultant psychiatrist writes: “I know that this might sound odd coming from a critical psychiatrist, but I believe that psychiatry has a future. Furthermore, I maintain that a good deal of psychiatry as practised now is…
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Do you have a biochemical imbalance? Are any such imbalances the cause of things like depression, or anxiety or schizophrenia? Trailblazing psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin – in Part 1 of his “Simple Truths about Psychiatry” video series – looks at…
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John Cromby say ‘yes’, but Vaughan Bell disagrees. They go ‘head to head’ in a very interesting back-and-forth discussion …. You can read about it here (as published The Psychologist magazine).
Depression is being over-diagnosed because GPs are too reliant on a “basic” questionnaire designed by a pharmaceutical company (Pfizer) which also manufacturers psychiatric drugs, campaigners have warned, as reported in the Daily Telegraph . The easy-to-use nine-question form sets the threshold for the…
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The patients who use the Gellinudd Recovery Centre have a say in everything from policy to the decor. Could co-produced innovations be the future for mental health care? Soft, neatly folded blankets hang invitingly over the backs of the modern…
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The publishers ( PCCS Books , 2016) of Searching for a Rose Garden describe it as “an incisive critique of all that is unhelpful about sanestream understandings of and responses to mental distress. Drawing on world-wide survivor activism and scholarship, it explores…
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The video below comes from the 17th Annual Conference of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry, held November 14-17, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. Each of the invited speakers was asked to present his or her proposal to…
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