Ben Collins

Some interesting quotations ( Part 4)

Author: Editorial 12th April 2021 3 Comments

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “There is no reason to believe that DSM-5 is safe or scientifically sound … The science simply isn’t there now……A research dead end.” Professor Allen Frances, Chair of DSM…
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Allen Frances, Ben Collins, Carl Jung, Martin Harrow, Peter Breggin, quotations, quotes, Robert Whitaker, Thomas Jobe, Tor Johan Ekeland

Outcomes for mental health services: what really matters?

Author: Editorial 6th August 2020 1 Comment

“For service users, it can be deeply disempowering when clinicians discount their understanding of their own illness, stripping their experience back to a set of symptoms and converting individual suffering into a 1–10 score in the search for a diagnosis.”…
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a coherent system

Ben Collins, King's Fund, mental health outcomes