Study highlights growing diversity of mental health models
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W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model
A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression
This research article by Peter Sterling (Professor of Neuroscience) has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Abstract Neuroscientists widely hypothesize that ‘depression’ arises from a brain disorder caused by some defect in a specific neural pathway. If so, we might identify…
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It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even exist?
This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does ADHD in fact exist? This week the BBC ’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics. In online consultations, staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder —…
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Psychiatrogenesis (Whither Psychiatry or Reform)
It’s Time for Psychology to Lead, Not Follow: Psychotherapy is not a medical treatment
“Aping pharmaceutical research methods does not elevate psychology. We should stop misleading the public to believe that emotional suffering is like medical disease, or that different kinds of psychotherapy are like different medications. These assumptions are false at every level….
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After skool: Mark Horowitz – common misconceptions about depression & antidepressants
Dr. Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. He has a doctorate in the neurobiology of depression and the action of antidepressants from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s…
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I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
“Society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person – and ignores the politics of their distress” This opinion piece by Sanah Ahsan has been published in The Guardian. It begins: “We are living, we’re told, through a ‘mental health crisis’ ….
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Psychiatry & Its Discontents
This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Written by one of the world’s most distinguished historians of psychiatry, Psychiatry and Its Discontents provides a wide-ranging and critical perspective on the profession that dominates the treatment of mental illness. Andrew Scull…
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Remembering a Quarter of a Million “Mental Patients” Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s
This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “In 1941, the staff of the Hadamar Psychiatric Institution—psychiatrists, nurses and secretaries—attended a ceremony and were each given a bottle of beer. The occasion was the murder of…
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