Shocking BBC report: children subjected to abuse in mental health unit.
Another shocking BBC report uncovers abuse at the Skye CAMHS unit, Scotland's largest mental health facility for young people
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2kg2djkk2o
Yet again, we hear about the...
What if being miserable isn’t an illness?
Introduction
Political commentators and activists sometimes seem to imagine that psychiatric diagnoses are uncontroversial. They write as though depression, for example, were as firmly-established and...
Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais Aftab
Republished from joannamoncrieff.com with permission from Professor Joanna Moncrieff
Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to...
The Ouija Board and the Skeptic
This article was first published on Mad in America on Jan 18th 2025
I’m not a psychiatrist. I’m not even a therapist. I’m someone who’s...
A Psychoanalysis Lesson? Or how not to treat a mother.
In my hometown, amidst a lovely garden, sits a psychoanalysis institute.
One day, while volunteering at a community festival, a tiny, slim woman approached us...