NHS ‘can’t cope’ with surge in Brits self-diagnosing with ADHD and autism, expert warns
autism
In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed as autistic. It’s a clinical catastrophe
Expert-by-experience in psychiatric research and abstract science
This 1 hour video come from Sam Fellowes, who says: “‘How the lived experience of experts-by-experience relates to the abstract nature of science’. I consider how we should understand lived experience in psychiatric research given that science involves abstractions which…
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Paddy and Christine McGuinness: Our Family and Autism
The description of this TV programme (from the BBC) says: “Paddy McGuinness and his wife Christine have three children: eight-year-old twins Leo and Penelope, and five-year-old Felicity. All three have been diagnosed with autism. This raw and intimate documentary follows Paddy and…
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Stop caging people with autism and learning disabilities, says Robert Buckland
The Neurodiversity Paradigm in Psychiatry: Robert Chapman, PhD
Children are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD if they fall behind at school, warns neurologist
This report by Anita Singh has been published in the Daily Telegraph. It begins: “Children are being wrongly diagnosed with ADHD when they are just falling behind, according to a leading neurologist, who said the medical profession was too quick to label people….
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In ‘Wintering,’ Katherine May Encourages ‘The Active Acceptance Of Sadness’
People with autism are being locked away in institutions. A radical change is needed
Autistic Hull man goes home after 15 years in hospital
