The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change
This is the dilemma: according to the preeminent health and rights bodies in the world, psychiatry has to change. How much? This much: “Denial...
Activism in mental health and policies of discomfort – Conversation with Emiliano Exposto
From Mad in Mexico: So, I am interested in the idea of expanded extractivism, because it allows us to think about the extractive operation: the...
Human rights must be part of everyday practice in mental health social work
Advocating and upholding human rights and social justice are core to the practice of mental health social work. It has been argued that failure...
The lie that antidepressants protect against suicide is deadly
The package inserts for antidepressants warn that the drugs increase the risk of suicide. For fluoxetine, the Danish package insert says that suicidal thoughts...
A NICE Game of Minecraft: Philosophical Flaws Underpinning UK Depression Guideline Nosology
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has delineated certain subclassifications of persistent depression in its new guideline, which grossly distorts the phenomenology of depression.