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A man sat across from me in a small room in Dundee House. A few crumpled letters were spread out on a table between...

We urge the BPS to consider the implications of proposals to grant psychologists prescribing rights. Specifically, we note that uncritical use of diagnostic language and assumptions in the field of mental health begs crucial questions about the nature of distress, while potentially contributing to the overuse and misuse of psychiatric drugs. We are also concerned about further restricting the right of service users to be offered a choice of understandings and approaches, especially in the field of mental health.

Matthew Prebeg and colleagues call for re-imagining patient engagement in youth mental health research in their new personal viewpoint article published in Lancet Psychiatry. Drawing upon...

‘I guess prior to knowing, I didn’t really think it was a medical condition, I thought it was more environmental… to do with your...

A new article published in Theory & Psychology investigates how the dominant narratives of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (PWDS) are constructed in Introductory Psychology...