I needed Kierkegaard and Freud; a psychiatrist prescribed cereal bars
The philosopher Ian Hacking described a looping effect, whereby people adjust themselves to become more like the labels foisted upon them. ‘Sometimes, our sciences...
Major psychiatric constructs are religious, not scientific, leading psychiatrists acknowledge
Since the seventeenth century, Enlightenment thinkers have distinguished science from religion, and by at least one critical distinction, leading psychiatrists have unwittingly acknowledged that...
Short-term psychodynamic therapy is more effective than CBT for depression, study finds
An article recently published in the Journal of Affective Disorders finds that mounting research evidence demonstrates the effectiveness of Short-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (STPP) in the treatment...
Turning children’s behaviour into a medical problem does more harm than good
In a new article for a leading Brazilian sociology journal, Fernando Freitas and Luciana Jaramillo Caruso de Azevedo argue that psychiatry and psychology are medicalising...
Cognitive behavioural therapy beats drugs for depression, in the long term
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is just as good as drugs for depression in the short term and better than drugs over the long term,...