The Illusions of Psychiatry
history of psychiatry
Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia
“If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here”: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
Psychiatry Past & Present
This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes two lecture videos from Dr. David Healy (professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers…
Read more
Social psychiatry could stem the rising tide of mental illness
This article by Prof. Mathew Smith has been published by The Conversation. It begins: “Nearly 400 million people are affected by mental illness, according to the World Health Organization . Depression, alone, afflicts nearly 300 million people. It is no surprise that concern about mental health is sky…
Read more
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardisation of Psychiatric Practice
“Psychiatry has been rather successful at growing business – perhaps even more so than other branches of medicine and even more so since its turn to the body and drugs that can be impossible to stop.” Prof. David Healy has…
Read more
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice
Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill
Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
This interview comes from Conversations in Critical Psychiatry – an interview series from psychiatrist Awais Aftab for Psychiatric Times. The series explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status…
Read more