Fundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice
BLOGS
Essays from a diverse selection of writers, which aim to change the professional and public discourse about emotional distress and unusual experiences.
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: Who Really Owns the Critique of Over-Medicalisation?
This blog has been written and published in collaboration with Mad In America
Right-Wing or Left-Wing: ...
Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness
This MIA Report was a collaboration between Mad in America and our affiliate, Mad in South...
STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud
This post was first published on Mad In America on September 18th 2024
Depression is the...
Do Depression Pills Improve Quality of Life?
Depression is almost always treated with depression pills, although their effect is so small that...
Therapy Fails Minority Women in the UK, Study Finds
This report was first published on Mad In America September 3rd 2024
A recent study published in the International...
Last chance: ECT Survey open until September 30th
Can you help by sharing the survey with just one other person?
ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY (ECT)
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS...
Working to Transmute the Pain: Why I Do the Work I Do
Why do I do the work that I do? It began with a childlike desire...
A Win for Science, with Profound Implications for Industry: FDA Rejects MDMA
First published by Mad in America on August 14th 2024
Concerns, from functional unblinding to sexual...
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz
This report was first published in Mad In America on 21st August 2024
In this interview...
The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis
First published on Mad In America August 17th 2024
One man’s nightmare, hospitalizations, and recovery, as...
Violence Caused by Antidepressants Ignored Once Again by Psychiatrists
This article was first published on Mad In America on August 13th 2024
In 2015, six...
Recent riots; a British Muslim woman reflects on how Islamophobia has seriously impacted her mental health
The first stone landed near me, like a raindrop heralding an approaching downpour. “Did I...
ECT SURVEY
Have you, or a friend or family member had electroconvulsive therapy (‘ECT’)?
If so, fill out this online survey about your experience. The survey was made by a team of researchers at the University of East London, UK – 3 have had ECT and 3 are psychologists.
They want to hear your experiences of ECT – whether positive, negative, mixed or neutral – and to improve the information given to people being offered ECT.
The survey is anonymous and can be filled out by any adult who has received ECT at any time (except the past month) or relatives and friends if they know how ECT has affected that person.
The survey will remain open until the end of September 2024. So far it has over 1,000 responses from 40 countries.
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OTHER RESOURCES
A list of groups and resources that you may find helpful. If you are aware of other resources that we should consider adding, please let us know by email: [email protected].
Mad in America – Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad).
The Power Threat Meaning Framework – Towards the identification of patterns in emotional distress, unusual experiences and troubled or troubling behaviour, as an alternative to functional psychiatric diagnosis.
Drop the Disorder (Facebook) – a group for anyone who is interested in challenging traditional approaches to emotional distress.
A Disorder 4 Everyone – Exploring the culture of psychiatric diagnosis – creating change. Provides events, blogs and other resources.
A free-to-use guide to the healing of psychological trauma is available. It comprises information, approaches to healing and resources together with links to selected clinicians, organisations, projects and support groups. Download the pdf here: Healing Psychological Trauma
Hearing Voices Network – If you hear voices, HVN can help – we are committed to helping people who hear voices. We offer information, support and understanding to people who hear voices and those who support them.
International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (UK) – works to promote greater knowledge of the different psychological approaches to psychosis and psychotic experiences – psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioural, arts-based, family and holistic approaches – and their better integration with each other and with pharmaceutical approaches.
The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry – CEP exists to communicate evidence of the potentially harmful effects of psychiatric drugs to the people and institutions in the UK that can make a difference.
The Inner Compass Initiative and Withdrawal Project – provides information, resources, tools, and connecting platforms to facilitate more informed choices regarding all things “mental health”.
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Prescribed Drug Dependence will address the growing problem of prescribed drug dependence by demanding appropriate services for those affected, proper training for medical professionals, reduced prescribing through adherence to new and existing guidelines, better data regarding the prevalence of PDD and more research into long-term harms associated with PDD.
More resources are listed here.