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BLOGS

Essays by a diverse collection of writers, which aim to change the professional and public discourse about emotional distress and unusual experiences. To submit a blog for consideration, please read our submission guidelines.
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How psychiatry marginalizes those who contradict Western norms

Robert Murphy -
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Machine learning fails to identify depression based on neurobiology

Peter Simons -
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Paternalism and psychiatry

Cathy Wield -
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Physical activity improves symptoms of depression and anxiety

Richard Sears -
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Restless Heart Syndrome: just hearing about psychiatry is enough

Laura Buchenlicht -
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Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction: understanding the neurobiology

Peter Simons -
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ATW

‘More like spin-the-bottle than science’: My mission to find proper treatment...

MITUK admin -
1
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New guidance on antidepressant withdrawal for doctors

Peter Simons -
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Declining youth mental health may be driven by increased abuse and...

Amy Biancolli -
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Researchers question the foundational assumptions of neuropsychology

Peter Simons -
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The cost of being labelled as ‘mentally ill’

Daisy Simpson -
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UK suicide prevention policies prioritise surveillance over social change

Samantha Lilley -
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Mad Camp Summer 2023

Will Hall -
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I needed Kierkegaard and Freud; a psychiatrist prescribed cereal bars

Charlotte Beale -
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Major psychiatric constructs are religious, not scientific, leading psychiatrists acknowledge

Bruce Levine -
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Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective than CBT for depression, study...

José G. Luiggi-Hernández -
2
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Turning children’s behaviour into a medical problem does more harm than...

Samantha Lilley -
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Cognitive behavioural therapy beats drugs for depression, in the long term

Peter Simons -
1
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Why therapy and writing are similar struggles

Charlotte Beale -
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My experience of being subjected to ECT illegally without consent

Jon -
3
ADHD
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‘ADHD’ is a description of behaviour. But it’s falsely presented as...

Peter Simons -
1
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‘I just keep getting hit by stuff’

Harvey Duke -
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electroconvulsive therapy
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A survivor harmed by ECT challenges a psychiatrist who promotes it

Anonymous Contributor -
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How to create meaningful inclusion in mental health research

Julia Lejeune -
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How psychiatric drugs create a vicious cycle of effects, more drugs...

Neil Broatch -
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electroconvulsive therapy
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Study that claims ECT is safe for children is flawed and...

Peter Simons -
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How the medical model disempowers voice-hearers

Ashley Bobak, PsyD -
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There is no valid evidence that genes play a role in...

Jay Joseph PsyD -
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I was 15 and on lithium, then the ‘troubled teen’ industry...

Laura L. -
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Our Mad highlights of 2022

Charlotte Taylor-Page -
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Mad in the UK’s 10 most popular articles this year

Charlotte Taylor-Page -
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Boarding schools are bad for children. Why do they still exist?

Charlotte Beale -
1
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My depression was caused by eco-destruction, not brain dysfunction

Matt Colborn -
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Prescribing ketamine for depression is not safe or effective, say researchers

Peter Simons -
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Book review: Drop the Disorder! by Adie Hulm

Adie Hulm -
1
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No, one in five children do not have a ‘mental disorder’

Charlotte Beale -
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New app aims to predict whether people with psychosis are worth...

Peter Simons -
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How to make Mental Health Act interviews more dialogical

Rob Manchester -
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Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and being on drugs: Young people’s...

JP Marshall -
3
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Lithium use leads to chronic kidney disease

Peter Simons -
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What happened when I stopped believing in ‘mental health’

Charlotte Beale -
5
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Healing From Transgenerational Trauma: My Mum, My Daughter, & Me

Ruth Dixon -
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The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New...

Peter Simons -
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Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?

Peter Simons -
1
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‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?’

Lucy Johnstone -
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Their Brains Are Not Broken

Louis Weinstock -
2
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Away From Psychiatrization: Towards Socio-Ecological Wellbeing in the Community

Gill Batty -
1
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Rehumanising our mental health systems: a discussion with Jaakko Seikkula on...

James Barnes -
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“I will listen, I will believe, I will not label distress...

dyates -
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Would you like fries with your diagnosis and drugs? 

Anonymous Contributor -
5
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A Disorder For Everyone Festival – our highlights

Charlotte Taylor-Page -
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The Use of Restraint in Mental Health Units in England –...

Matthew Morris -
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When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic

Charlotte Beale -
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The IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure

Michael Scott -
1
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MITUK Statement on Panorama, Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk

MITUK admin -
1
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Trauma Survivors Speak Out Against Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

Rebecca Donaldson -
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Dr Gabor Maté at the AD4E Festival

Jo Watson -
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ATW

Five articles that show the media is waking up to distress...

Charlotte Beale -
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Challenging a Psychiatric Diagnosis

Jo McFarlane -
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A Disorder For Everyone Festival – Morning Highlights

Charlotte Taylor-Page -
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Introducing the AD4E Guest Speakers – Festival Line-up

MITUK admin -
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Art

Alicia, one of many

Albin -
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Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – Australia

Lucy Johnstone -
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Medical Gaslighting of Patients with Akathisia – a personal story

Phil Nolin -
2
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Top 10 Myths about the critics of psychiatry

Charlotte Taylor-Page -
2
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Stop Calling My Survival A Disorder

Laura Buchenlicht -
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Why the Current Mental Health Care Model Must Evolve

MITUK admin -
1
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A Disorder for Everyone! Online Festival September 2022

Jo Watson -
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Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – New Zealand

Lucy Johnstone -
1
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Love for my Mad Self

Anonymous Contributor -
2
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Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit

Robert Whitaker -
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Are Young People More Resilient Than we Think? – Lessons learned...

Rebecca Horn -
0
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Why Do People Self-Harm and What Can We Do to Stop...

Cathy Wield -
2
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Calling someone ‘anti-psychiatry’ is not an argument – and for many...

Dr. James Davies -
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How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs – a blog...

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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Part two: response to criticism of our chemical imbalance paper 

Joanna Moncrieff -
3
Antidepressants

Part one: how to take the news that depression has not...

Joanna Moncrieff -
0
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Pain, grief, loss, regret

Fiona French -
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Grief is Never a Disorder   

Sue Irwin -
2
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Becoming Whole: How a Change in Me Became a Change in...

Tessa Anderson-Ramos -
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Mad in the UK: Interview

MITUK admin -
1
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The fortress of mental health services 

Jane Fisher -
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Johann Hari: Stolen Focus – Why You Can’t Pay Attention

James Moore -
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An example of a broken system

Red Riding Hood -
2
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New NICE Guidelines for ECT Are Dangerously Inadequate, Say 50 Patients...

Chris Harrop -
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When Tapering Antidepressants, is Going Slow Always the Best Strategy?

James Moore -
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Fatherland Dreamland Motherland Hinterland

Kate MacFarlane -
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Good Riddance Effexor — A Poem for Ed White.

MITUK admin -
3
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Labels that stick

Cathy Wield -
5
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Open Letter to This Morning: “The truth about antidepressants – What...

MITUK admin -
4
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RIP: Ed White – Advocate, Researcher and Supporter

James Moore -
5
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Are you a Mental Health service provider? Psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, mental health nurse,...

MITUK admin -
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Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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LETTER: Antidepressant Withdrawal: why has it been ignored for so long?

MITUK admin -
1
Blogs

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: Have you taken a benzodiazepine (such as Diazepam,...

MITUK admin -
0
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NEW BOOK: Mental Hospitals, Care Homes and Other Stories

Frank McCutcheon -
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When treatment makes you sick: the eating disorder clinic  

Charlotte Beale -
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The Emperor’s New Clothes 

Dr Creatively Maladjusted -
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Two poems: ‘Skin’ & ‘Darkness.’

Madusa Moon -
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Crisis in Serviceland  

Anon -
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In Memoriam: Paula Joan Caplan

MITUK admin -
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Resettlement revisited in my novel Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home

Anne Goodwin -
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Call for participants: Understanding Service Responses to Repeated Self-Harm 

MITUK admin -
0
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The ERNI Declaration: Making Sense of Distress Without “Disease”

ernimovement -
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The Psychologist

Charlotte Beale -
1
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The Politics of Distress: A discussion with Dr. James Davies on...

James Barnes -
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The Month My World Turned Upside Down

Madusa Moon -
2
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The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health

Robert Whitaker -
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Not Going Quietly

Rufus May -
1
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Psychiatric diagnosis: what does it really mean? 

Rachel Freeth -
2
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Philosophy & Madness: A Discussion with Wouter Kusters on his new...

Wouter Kusters -
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Audit of electroconvulsive therapy reveals poor administration and monitoring

Emaline Friedman -
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‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need...

Anne Cooke -
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The origins of mental health services

Joanna Moncrieff -
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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs

Joanna Moncrieff -
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The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark

Robert Whitaker -
1
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Insane Medicine: Epilogue

Sami Timimi -
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The Great Slowdown: Why Breaking Down Is Waking Up 

James Scurry -
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Art Therapy and Holding on to Rage

Lucy Hodgkiss -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 2)

James Barnes -
1
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THE ROSE AND THORN: A Participatory Theatre Project

John Hoggett -
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A Disorder 4 Everyone!: Online Festival 2021

Jo Watson -
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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 9: The Worried Parent (Part 1)

Sami Timimi -
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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 1: Reasoning and Meaning

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
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‘Call Me Crazy’: A Purposeful Act of Activism

Jo Watson -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out...

James Barnes -
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Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body & Are...

Joanna Moncrieff -
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New Campaign: Supporting Litigation Against Mental Health Services Protecting Harmful Psychiatric Practice

John Henden -
2
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Don’t Believe Everything You Read: Words Matter Desperately

Paula J Caplan -
1
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 8: Treatment Traps and How to Get Out...

Sami Timimi -
0
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On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem

Joanna Moncrieff -
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How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs

Joanna Moncrieff -
0
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part...

Sami Timimi -
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Out of the Bubble: Now or Never?

MITUK admin -
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Appealing the FDA’s Denial of ECT’s Harms

MITUK admin -
0
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part...

Sami Timimi -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society

Sami Timimi -
0
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Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 2)

Sami Timimi -
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Review of “Call me Crazy”: A play by Paula Caplan PhD

Amanda Bueno de Mesquita -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 5: The Manufacture of Childhood Depression (Part 1)

Sami Timimi -
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Exploring Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: A Town Hall Discussion Series

James Moore -
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What is going on? An abuse survivor’s experience of the pandemic

Sally-Ann -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)...

Sami Timimi -
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Pathogenic societies and collective madness: A critical look at normalcy

Enric Garcia Torrents -
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 4: The Manufacture of Autism Spectrum Disorders (Part...

MITUK admin -
1
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Call for participants: Research Study on Method of Levels (MOL) Therapy...

MITUK admin -
0
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of ADHD (Part 2)

Sami Timimi -
2
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The Spurning of Knowledge at Mental Health Tribunals: Personal Reflections

Tom Todd -
2
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 3: The Manufacture of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (Part...

Sami Timimi -
3
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (2/2)

Sami Timimi -
0
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Insane Medicine, Chapter 2: The Scientism of Psychiatry (1/2)

Sami Timimi -
1
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Insane Medicine, Chapter One: The Medical Model of Mental Health Is...

Sami Timimi -
0
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Are critics of psychiatry stranded in a ‘Jurassic world?’

James Barnes -
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Waking After a Lifetime: Ingrid’s Voice

Ingrid Heiner -
3
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My Personal Journey on the Psychiatric Conveyor Belt

Richard Thompson -
2
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Coming Back Down to Earth: Exploring Distress, Loss and Grief in...

Matthew Adams -
1
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Surviving the Pandemic – Are Young People More Resilient Than we...

Rebecca Horn -
0
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The Devil’s Pulpit: A Reflection On False Authority, Past And Present

Paul Wilson -
1
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John Read and Irving Kirsch – Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) Does the...

James Moore -
0
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Electro-Convulsive Therapy is Still Used in 2020: is 80 Years of...

Chris Harrop -
1
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Wilful Blindness

Marion Brown -
5
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Therapy From Home During the COVID Crisis

Sue Irwin -
0
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Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care: An Interview with UN...

Ana Florence -
1
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‘What’s the Matter With Tony Slattery?’

Lucy Johnstone -
2
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Values Matter in the Digital Space as in Everyday Life

Peter Gordon -
1
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Understanding our Feelings in the Time of COVID

James Brennan -
2
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Unconventional Views About Mental Health

Evgeny Legedin -
8
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Appropriate Responses to a Pandemic: How are Your Seven Emotional Systems?

Jessica Bolton -
0
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We Are All in This Together

Lucy Johnstone -
6
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COVID 19 Resources – We’re all in This Together

MITUK admin -
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Why it’s Healthy to be Afraid in a Crisis

MITUK admin -
2
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Antidepressants Are Great, Until You Have an Adverse Drug Reaction

Anne Marie O'Beirne -
3
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Calling Someone ‘anti-psychiatry’ is not an Argument – and for Many...

Dr. James Davies -
5
Blogs

Why Must People Pathologize Eating Problems?

Jo Watson -
2
Blogs

Moving Mental Health Work Away From Diagnosis: Sarah Kamens and Peter...

Justin Karter -
0
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John Read – UK Esketamine Approval – Not so Fast

James Moore -
0
Blogs

Gaslighting: Should we Label the Victims as Psychotic or Abused?

E.M. Carr -
14
Blogs

Are Our Regulatory Bodies Prioritising Drug Company Interests Over Public Safety?

John Read -
1
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It’s Time to Change the Way We Make Sense of Human...

Gary Sidley -
7
Art

Exploring Identity Through Art

Breakdown Bolton -
1
Blogs

Psychological Support for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal

James Moore -
0
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Prescribing Rights for UK Psychologists – Should We Be Cautious?

MITUK admin -
4
Blogs

Expert Reaction to Proposed ‘Speedball’ Antidepressant Therapy

Charlie White -
1
Blogs

Finding My Tribe: A Survivor’s Story

Sue Irwin -
8
Blogs

Peter Kinderman – Why We Need a Revolution in Mental Health...

James Moore -
6
Blogs

IIPDW Network Meeting Brings Together Professional and Lived-Experience Expertise

MITUK admin -
1
Blogs

How to Resolve the Mental Health Crisis – An Open Letter...

Gary Sidley -
5
Blogs

The Creation of a Conceptual Alternative to the DSM: An Interview...

Zenobia Morrill -
3
Blogs

“My Voice; My Choice” – A Movie Premiere and the Launch...

Sara Tai -
1
Blogs

55 Steps: A Battle Cry Against Forced ‘Treatment’ For us All

Rai Waddingham -
6
Blogs

On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem

Joanna Moncrieff -
1
Blogs

Two Years Tapering an Antidepressant – A Life-Changing Experience That I...

James Moore -
3
Blogs

Challenging a Diagnosis

Jo McFarlane -
7
Blogs

The Mental Wealth Crisis

Amanda Bueno de Mesquita -
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Blogs

Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – Australia

Lucy Johnstone -
1
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Crossing Cultures with the Power Threat Meaning Framework – New Zealand

Lucy Johnstone -
4
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The War on Antidepressants: Why We Need to End it for...

Michael P. Hengartner PhD -
0
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Living Under Section – Coercion, Powerlessness and Aggravated Distress

Lauren O'Connell -
1
Blogs

Conscientious Objection to Coercive Treatment: An Opportunity for Mental Health Professionals...

Gary Sidley -
1
Blogs

Antidepressant Dependence Discussed at the Seat of Welsh Government – Video

James Moore -
0
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Who am I? The Identity, Morality and Silence of Mental Health...

Guest Blogger2 -
20
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An Alternative Review Of The Mental Health Act

MITUK admin -
0
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Sanitizing Academics and Damaged Lives

Alec Grant -
4
Blogs

Free Resource on Healing Psychological Trauma

MITUK admin -
0
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Product Placement: Out of Sight and Out of Mind

Keir Harding -
3
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Global Mental Health: An Old System Wearing New Clothes

Justin Karter -
0
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Prescribed Drug Dependence: Psychiatry’s Appalling Response to Alarming Research Findings

Terry Lynch -
7
Blogs

World Mental Health Day – A Call to Action!

Jo Watson -
1
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Millions at Risk From Antidepressant Withdrawal, New Review Concludes

MITUK admin -
3
Blogs

The 57th Maudsley Debate: Interview with Professor John Read and Doctor...

James Moore -
4
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Notes From the First Maudsley Debate, January 26, 2000

MITUK admin -
5
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Royal College of Psychiatry Representative Resigns From Government Review After Complaints...

MITUK admin -
2
Blogs

C.O.P.E Campaign Group Launches Petition To Better Safeguard Infants From Prescribed...

Dave Traxson -
0
Blogs

Trump Anxiety Disorder Is More Fake News

Chris Coombs -
0
Blogs

My 33-year Personal Journey to Disillusionment With Western Psychiatry

Gary Sidley -
17
Blogs

Being Non-Expert, Non-Coercive and Non-Diagnostic. Old Wine in New Bottles

Pete Sanders -
1
Blogs

What Does it Mean to be Anti-Psychiatry? Thoughts of a Cartoon...

Auntie Psychiatry -
4
Blogs

Psychological Interventions for People Distressed by Psychotic Experiences: Encouraging Debate

Peter Kinderman -
3
Blogs

Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences

Joanna Moncrieff -
2
Blogs

Welcome to Mad in the UK!

MITUK admin -
5
Benzodiazepines

The REST Service for Benzo and Sleeping Tablet Dependence

Lucy Fernandes -
0
Blogs

Troubling Mental Health Nurse Education

Alec Grant -
9
Adverse effects

We’ve Backed the Wrong Horse – It’s Time For Our Love...

James Moore -
9
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