The cost of being labelled as ‘mentally ill’
I had a brain haemorrhage and stroke aged 32. These were misdiagnosed and dismissed as psychiatric issues. Two years later I still have no...
UK suicide prevention policies prioritise surveillance over social change
Suicide prevention policies are a ‘biopolitical surveillance’ playground, according to a new paper in Critical Social Policy by United Kingdom-based authors Alexander Oaten, Ana Jordan, Amy...
Mad Camp Summer 2023
Dina began to pray, and you know when Dina starts to pray, things are getting serious.
Dina Tyler, my longtime colleague and beloved friend, and...
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...