Women Likely to Be Retraumatised by ECT: Disturbing Findings from a New Survey
A new international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients has delivered stark findings relating to women’s experiences of this controversial procedure. The paper...
Sucker Punch – a response to systemic failure within Community Mental Health Teams.
This is not an article. It’s not a poem. It’s not an analysis. It’s what comes out when you’re left reeling from the impact...
A Hospital Surgeon Falls Victim to Psychiatry
The author wishes to remain anonymous.
In 2010, I had been a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist for 22 years at a teaching hospital in England....
Finding Humanity in the Midst of Chaos – a student mental health nurse’s experience
I wrote this book mainly to promote counselling which essentially enables people to open up about what’s happened to them, rather than undergo psychiatric...
What does it mean to be an addict in Egypt? A reflection on medical...
I wrote this piece from Egypt, where the language of “mental health” still arrives through the lens of medical imperialism. Here, psychiatry does not...