ethics – A New Vision for Mental Health

Ethical issues in psychopharmacology

Author: Editorial 13th June 2022 0 Comments

This paper by L. McHenry has been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. The abstract says: “The marketing of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors in the psychopharmacological industry presents a serious moral problem for the corporate model of medicine. In this…
Read more

a coherent system

antidepressants, ethics, Journal of Medical Ethics, L. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, SSRI, SSRIs

Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World

Author: Editorial 25th March 2020 0 Comments

The subtitle of this book is “International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry”. It has been written by psychiatrists Pat Bracken and Philip Thomas. The publishers say: “How are we to make sense of madness and psychosis? For most of us the…
Read more

collaborative practice

anthropology, books, ethics, humanities, madness, Pat Bracken, Philip Thomas, philosophy, postmodern, psychiatry, psychosis

We need to rethink how we classify mental illness

Author: Editorial 2nd November 2018 1 Comment

Dr. Tamara Kayali Browne is a Bioethicist and Philosopher, lecturing in Health Ethics and Professionalism at Deakin University, Australia. Writing in The Guardian newspaper, Dr. Browne asks: “How do we decide what emotions, thoughts and behaviours are normal, abnormal or pathological?” She…
Read more

a wellbeing society

abnormality, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, ethics, normality, pathology, philosophy, psychiatry, sociology, Tamara Browne, The Guardian