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A review of “Empire of Normality: neurodiversity and capitalism” Robert Chapman, Pluto Press 2023.   Introduction Concepts of diagnosis and illness are fundamental to psychiatry. Challenge diagnosis,...

I write about the ways in which child sexual abuse and exploitation has been sanitized by prominent academics – including internationally high profile intellectuals – over the last four decades, contrasting this with what is known about the impact of such abuse on the psychological development on those abused and exploited.

Editor's Note: This post was originally published on The Critical AMHP and is shared here with permission. There is a growing need and a desire...

A majority of patients seeking medical support when discontinuing antidepressants found their prescribing doctors to be unhelpful, according to the results of the second-largest...

Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that the commonly used antipsychotic clozapine increases the risk of certain cancers, including leukaemia and lymphoma....