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.
New app aims to predict whether people with psychosis are worth hiring
Editor’s Note: Part of MIA’s core mission is to present a scientific critique of the...
How to make Mental Health Act interviews more dialogical
Editor's Note: This post was originally published on The Critical AMHP and is shared here...
Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of “bipolar disorder”
‘I guess prior to knowing, I didn’t really think it was a medical condition, I...
Lithium Use Leads to Chronic Kidney Disease
Editor’s Note: Part of MIA’s core mission is to present a scientific critique of the...
What happened when I stopped believing in ‘mental health’
Modern psychiatry has turned suffering into a health problem.
It gives disease-sounding names to distressing feelings...
Healing From Transgenerational Trauma: My Mum, My Daughter, & Me
Ruth Dixon will be known to attenders at 'A disorder 4 everyone' as a performance...
The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
Editor’s Note: Part of MIA’s core mission is to present a scientific critique of the...
Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?
Editor's Note: Part of MIA’s core mission is to present a scientific critique of the...
‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?’
Editor's Note: This post was originally published in May 2020, we are reposting some of...
A Disorder for Everyone - The Online Festival
ECT REVIEW - WRITE TO YOUR MP
Note: All the campaign materials, blogs and updates can be found here.
A group of 40 professionals, researchers, ECT recipients and carers has written to Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, and to subsequent holders of this post, asking for an independent review into ECT along the lines of the recent Cumberlege report into pelvic meshes. We have also written to our own MPs and have so far had a positive response from 20 of them who have pledged to support our request. Dr Rosena Allin Khan, Shadow Minister for Mental Health, is actively supporting our campaign, and has asked two parliamentary questions about the regulation of ECT.
You can join us by writing to your MP, find out how here.
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COVID-19 Resources
Non-medical, non-pathologising resources to help us all survive the COVID-19 crisis – updated regularly
New on Mad in America
Psychiatry Textbooks Are Filled with Errors and Propaganda
Researchers Champion Human Rights Based Approach to Psychosocial Disability
Mutual Support in an Age of Social Distancing
Jyl Ion: Awakening as a Medium
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]. Thanks.
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) – ISPS UK is the United Kingdom network of the International organisation ISPS – International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis. ISPS 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.