Politics and Psychiatry: the Cost of the Trauma Cover-Up
In Noel Hunter’s recently published Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services, she asks, “Are we continuing to funnel money into a fundamentally broken system?”
Antidepressants: is there a better way to quit them?
Millions of us take SSRIs, and most can give them up without too much trouble. So why do a minority suffer severe side-effects?
Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Care
From Scientific American. Peter Kinderman writes: In my book A Prescription for Psychiatry I offer a manifesto for mental health and well-being. I argue...
Manchester University Antipsychotic Discontinuation Survey
Manchester University is currently recruiting people to take part in a research study looking at what support people with experience of psychosis want when stopping antipsychotic medication.
Joanna Moncrieff: “I’m Not Convinced Antidepressants Have Any Use”
From The New Statesman: “Around one in eight adults in England – or 8.3 million people – is on antidepressants, a figure that has risen...