In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed as autistic. It’s...
The All-Purpose Diagnosis
The one-size-fits-all Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...
Bridging subjectivity and science: Lived Experience expands mental health research
A new paper by Anna Bergqvist, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, makes a philosophical case for both the moral and...
Not just a dream: finding the mental health community I’d been longing for
Several weeks after being committed under the Mental Health Act, still dopey from mandated antipsychotics, I had a dream. They were shatteringly vivid then—usually...
From local insights to global impact: The role of indigenous psychologies in developing global...
In her latest article in Psychological Studies, Parul Bansal writes about the promises and challenges of developing a Global Psychology (GP) and the central role...
Escaping the shackles of psychiatry: what I’ve seen and survived, as both doctor and...
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke. This is as true on...