diagnostic labelling – Page 3 – A New Vision for Mental Health

Book of Lamentations

Author: Editorial 10th February 2022 0 Comments

“DSM-5 arranges its various strains of madness solely in terms of the behaviors exhibited. This is a recurring theme in the novel, while any consideration of the mind itself is entirely absent. In its place we’re given diagnoses such as ‘frotteurism,’…
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American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, dystopian novels, psychiatry, Sam Kriss, The New Inquiry

Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good

Author: Editorial 21st January 2022 0 Comments

This book (2013) has been written by Dr. James Davies. The publishers say: “Why is psychiatry such big business? Why are so many psychiatric drugs prescribed – 47 million antidepressant prescriptions in the UK alone last year – and why, without…
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books, clinical drugs trials, diagnostic labelling, James Davies, placebo effect, psychiatry

Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia

Author: Editorial 5th January 2022 0 Comments

Subtitled “A brief history of an archetypal psychiatric diagnosis”, this article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “During the pandemic, increased incidences of distress can be portrayed as proliferations of mental illnesses such as ‘Depressive…
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anxiety, depression, diagnostic labelling, history of psychiatry, John Read, psychiatry, Psychology Today, schizophrenia

The Anti-Depressant Era

Author: Editorial 5th November 2021 0 Comments

This book (1999) has been written by Prof. David Healy. The publishers say: “When we stop at the pharmacy to pick up our Prozac, are we simply buying a drug? Or are we buying into a disease as well? The first…
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antidepressants, books, David Healy, depression, diagnostic labelling, pharmaceutical industry, Prozac, psychiatry, Zoloft

They Say You’re Crazy: How The World’s Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who’s Normal

Author: Editorial 13th October 2021 0 Comments

This book by Paula Caplan, published in 1996, looks at the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In 2013 the most recent DSM edition (DSM-5) was produced, expanding even further – to well over 600 – the number of…
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Allen Frances, books, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, DSM, Paula Caplan, psychiatry

Why I Can Never “Recover” Under NHS Mental Health Services

Author: Editorial 3rd September 2021 0 Comments

This post is from WrenAves’ Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad blog. It begins by declaring a content warning: “Mention of self-harm, abusive relationships, assault, psychiatric abuse”, then continues: “I’ve been seeing a private therapist now for 6 months, and it’s been an absolute revelation. After 9…
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Clients & Patients, counselling, diagnostic labelling, NHS, personality disorder, psychiatry, The Samaritans, WrenAves

Exploring novel approaches to youth mental health

Author: Editorial 26th August 2021 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Lawrence Howells has been published in The Psychologist. It begins: “Three years after qualifying as a clinical psychologist, I found myself facing a significant dilemma. I was asked to speak to college students about youth mental health…
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emotion-focused care

CBT, children and adolescents, diagnostic labelling, Emotion Regulation CBT (ER-CBT), emotions, Lawrence Howells, New Approaches, The Psychologist

DSM69: Dolly Sen’s Manual of Psychiatric Disorder

Author: Editorial 20th May 2021 0 Comments

Concerning this booklet , the publishers say: “Dolly Sen is a well known artist and activist working and exploring what it means to experience mental distress and the effects of being labelled with a psychiatric diagnosis. Her art is witty, humorous,…
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art, books, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, Dolly Sen, psychiatry

There’s More To Life Than Happiness

Author: Editorial 9th April 2021 0 Comments

“I think it’s not just that you pursue a project beyond yourself because it will make you happy, but that you pursue a project beyond yourself because it makes suffering worthwhile. It’s not that you do these things because the…
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a wellbeing society

antidepressants, Ashley Frawley, diagnostic labelling, happiness, Mark Horowitz, meaning-making, psychiatry, Renegade Inc., Ross Ashcroft, videos, wellbeing

Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really Is – and What It Isn’t

Author: Editorial 8th April 2021 0 Comments

This book is from psychologist Lucy Foulkes. The publishers say: “Public awareness of mental illness has been transformed in recent years, but our understanding of what it actually is has yet to catch up. Too often, psychiatric disorders are confused with…
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adolescence, books, children and adolescents, COVID-19, Defining mental illness, diagnostic labelling, Lucy Foulkes, normality, stress