Kate Allsopp – A New Vision for Mental Health

A proposal to introduce formal recording of psychosocial adversities associated with mental health using ICD-10 codes

Author: Editorial 2nd March 2022 0 Comments

This article by Kate Allsop and Peter Kinderman has been published in The Lancet. It begins: “It is well known that poverty and social inequity are major determinants of our mental health, 1 and the United Nations Special Rapporteur 2 characterises mental health…
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a coherent system

Kate Allsopp, Peter Kinderman, psychosocial factors, The Lancet

Psychiatric diagnosis ‘scientifically meaningless’

Author: Editorial 11th July 2019 0 Comments

As reported in ScienceDaily : “A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders. The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed…
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, diagnostic labelling, John Read, Kate Allsopp, nosology, Peter Kinderman, psychiatry, Research, ScienceDaily