‘I’d Rather Die Than Go Back to Hospital’: Why We Need a Non-medical Crisis...
The steering group shared a basic philosophy: a holistic, psychosocial approach to mental health, drawing on social constructionist and feminist ideas, on work highlighting the links between trauma and mental health, and on the service user/survivor movement.
The Politics of Distress: A discussion with Dr. James Davies on his new book...
Our system fails because it colludes with social structures that themselves generate harmful ways of being in the world. The sector at best sedates these states while at the same time exonerates harmful social arrangements by over-emphasising the so-called internal and disordered causes of structural distress.
Gaslighting: Should we Label the Victims as Psychotic or Abused?
It took me a long time to realise that I was being gaslighted. In fact, I had no word to describe the experience until years after I had finally escaped, when I came across the term by chance. What is worse, whenever I talk about my past relationship now with friends in my new life, I am horrified to discover how common manipulative relationships are.
What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation
Although the trial showed that relapse is more likely if you reduce antipsychotic medication, it did not show that relapse is inevitable.
Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society
Neoliberalism teaches people that suffering has nothing to do with the inequality they experience, but that it comes from their own individual failures of body and mind, and requires "experts" to identify and treat it.