ARTICLES CRITICAL OF PSYCHIATRY
This website will consider publishing any article/essay about critical psychiatry and/or critical of psychiatry (including essays for university courses). Please send them attached to or in the body of an e-mail to Duncan Double@criticalpsychiatry.co.uk
A critique of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia and psychosis. Joanna Moncrieff
Advocacy update. The latest in activism and community news from ENUSP, the European Network of (ex)Users and Survivors of Psychiatry.
Beyond belief: Alternative ways of working with delusions, obsessions and unusual experiences,. Tamasin Knight
An interview with Pat Bracken on post-modern psychiatry and the social context of trauma Wise Counsel Podcast
A systematic review of the Soteria paradigm for the treatment of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. Tim Calton, Michael Ferriter, Nick Huband & Helen Spandler
How scientifically valid is the knowledge base of global mental health? Derek Summerfield
Depression: A medical or existential condition? James Baxter
The annihilation of subjective experience. Alaister Morgan & Tim Calton
Mind your language. Louise Pembroke
Series on how we improve relationships between service users and psychiatrists. Louise Pembroke
Diagnosing so-called ‘ADHD’ as a cultural affliction of late modernity. Review of Rethinking ADHD: From brain to culture edited by Sami Timimi & Jonathan Leo. Richard House.
Psychopolitics: Peter Sedgwick's legacy for the politics of mental health. Mark Cresswell & Helen Spandler
Diagnoses are psychiatry's star signs. Let's listen more and drug people less. Richard Bentall
Articles in english from Peter Lehmann Publishing website
"The myth of the chemical cure". Joanna Moncrieff 
Author's response to Invited commentary on ... Beyond consultation. Pat Bracken & Phil Thomas
Beyond consultation: The challenge of working with user/survivor and carer groups. Pat Bracken & Phil Thomas
How do psychiatric drugs work? Joanna Moncrieff & David Cohen
Only you can cure yourself. Ann Lawson
"Psychiatric diagnoses are less reliable than star signs", interview with Richard Bentall. Ed Halliwell.
See a psychiatrist? Are you mad? Review of Richard Bentall's Doctoring the mind. Salley Vickers
Who owns the mind? Gail Hornstein
The subjective experience of taking antipsychotic medication: a content analysis of Internet data. J Moncrieff, D Cohen & JP Mason.
Harvard medical school in ethics quandry. 
Drug maker is accused of fraud
The fool on the hill. Lancet review of The myth of the chemical cure and Side effects: A prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling antidepressant on trial
The wind never lies. Steven Morgan
An analysis of medical and legal flaws in the PCL-R. Bob Johnson
Doctors, patients and the pharmaceutical industry. Joe Collier
Relationships with the drug industry: Keep at arm's length. Marcia Angell
The strengths and weaknesses of DSM-IV. Simon Sobo
Review of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness. Phil Barker and reply and further reply.
Eli Lilly pays record $1.4bn for promoting off label use of olanzapine. BMJ News
Summary of Humanizing madness: Psychiatry and the cognitive neurosciences by Jock McLaren
Science and Canadian psychiatry: A critique. Jock McLaren
The convenient myth of Thomas Szasz. P Buchanan-Barker & P Barker
The radical psychiatrist as trickster. Helen Spandler
Anti-coercion is not anti-psychiatry. Thomas Szasz
Drug companies and doctors: A story of corruption. Marcia Angell
Nice advice lacks nerve. Sami Timimi
'Dad solved other people's problems - but not his own' 
Review of Alternatives beyond psychiatry. DB Double
Psychiatric group faces scrutiny over drug industry ties
Mental health in an age of celebrity: The courage to care. Phil Barker & Poppy Buchanan-Barker
Critical psychiatry entry in Encyclopedia of psychology. David Cohen
Mental health revolution. Talk by Pat Bracken. [Presentation]
NICE recommendations are not evidence based and could expose many to unnecessary harm Sami Timimi, Jon Jureidini & Jonathan Leo [Full e-letter]
Industry-sponsored clinical research: A broken system. Marcia Angell
Diagnosis: Greed. New York Times columnist, Judith Warner
Metapsychology online review of Users and abusers of psychiatry
Metapsychology online review of Formulation in psychology and psychotherapy
Clinical psychology and truth. David Smail
Pharma and medical education: Some progress in UK psychiatry. Joanna Moncrieff, Philip Thomas & Rhodri Huws
A social/emotional theory of depression. Thomas Scheff
Rampage shooting: Emotions and relationships as cause. Thomas Scheff
Letter Louise Pembroke re Service users, power, authority and protest: A call for renewed activism. Richard Lakeman, Patrick McGowan & Jim Walsh
Should we be 'pushing meds'? The implications of pharmacogenomics. J Bray, C Clarke, G Brennan & T Muncey
Improper rewards of research. Arnold S Relman
Are our leading paediatricians drug industry shills? Lawrence Diller
The other side of mental health science. Steve Morgan
Key opinion leaders: independent experts or drug representatives in disguise? Ray Moynihan
Misguided standards of care. Lawrence Diller
Researchers fail to reveal full drug pay. NYTimes
An e-interview with Pat Bracken
Helping patients stop taking SSRIs. James Alexander
Placebolotherapy. Nick Woodhead
Listen to the wounded healers. Philip Thomas
Political violence and the concept of collective psychopathology. Richard Koenigsberg
Chapter-by-chapter description of The missing gene. Jay Joseph
Coming off medication Guy Holmes & Marese Hudson
Marketing overdose, Campaigning against irresponsible drug promotionRethinking the potential of the brain in major psychiatric disorders. Steven Morgan
Putting the soul back into psychiatry. Mind thinktank report
"Forcing psychiatrc drugs can increase violence" Press release of new task force on mental health legal advocacy and activism
Antidepressants 'do not work' BBC News
BBC Radio 4 debate on antidepressant study
The psychiatric truth that dares not speak its name. Review of The Myth of the Chemical Cure. Bob Johnson
Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: A meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. Irving Kirsch et al
The listening cure. Time magazine
"The Gillberg affair", a medical research scandal in Sweden (working draft). Douglas Keenan
Review of The myth of the chemical cure. Sarah Yates
Proposals to force more involuntary treatment stir debate. Washington Post
The media and the chemical imbalance theory of depression. Jonathan Leo & Jeffrey Lacasse
Washing the numbers, selling the model (Depression - The facts and the fables). Ben Goldacre
Beyond paradigms: Promoting a recovery agenda in mental health. Pat Bracken
The psychotic among us: The emerging view of psychosis and its possible implications for stigma. Tony Benning
Review of Mental Health at the Crossroads. Sjoerd Sytema
Critical psychiatry. Barry Turner
Letter to NAMI that is critical of the psychiatric medical model. Steven Morgan
The disease-centred model of drug action in psychiatry. Sample chapter 1 from The Myth of the Chemical Cure: A Critique of Psychiatric Drug Treatment. Joanna Moncrieff
It's not so easy to predict murder - do the maths. Ben Goldacre
When hospital is a prison. Ben Goldacre
More than molecules - how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems. [mp3 lecture] Ben Goldacre
Interview with Thomas Szasz about his new book Coercion as Cure. René Talbot
The trouble with psychiatry. John Sorboro
Are antidepressants as effective as claimed? No, they are not effective at all. Joanna Moncrieff
A new epidemic. Healthy Skepticism video
What next for Craig? Panorama programme about ADHD
Review of Dying for a Cure. Claire Ward
Beware of mentioning psychosocial factors. Ben Goldacre
Harm reduction guide to coming off psychiatric drugs. Icarus Project and Freedom Centre
Should young people be given antidepressants? No. Sami Timimi
Review of Critical voices in child and adolescent mental health
Review of Making us crazy. Miles Clapham
Review of Alternatives beyond psychiatry. Karl Koehler
Metapsychology online review of Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World. Brad Lewis
Psychiatry without context: Turning sadness into disease. Review by Arthur Kleinman of The loss of sadness: How psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Debunking the myth of the chemical imbalance. Joanna Moncrieff
Psychiatry - A nihilistic discipline. Bob Johnson
The acceptable limits of psychiatry. Duncan Double
Review of Soul Survivor. Mira de Vries
Metapsychology book review of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness. Tony O'Brien
Furor Therapeuticus: Benjamin Rush and the Philadelphia Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. Leon Eisenberg
Mental Health Today review of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness
Mental Health Today review of Critical voices in child and adolescent mental health
Bush's mental health madness. John Sorboro
Given the choice, I'd have the miracle pill story. Ben Goldacre
Far out. David Gale
Psychiatric Services book review of Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World.
Anti-psychiatry. John Huddleston
Diagnosis and drug treatment. Joanna Moncrieff
Challenging risk: A critique of defensive practice. D B Double
'Giving up the culture of blame' Risk assessment and risk management in psychiatric practice. John Morgan
Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry. D B Double
The Psychologist review of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness
Listening to Chekhov: Narrative approaches to depression. Brad Lewis
Can you live with the voices in your head? New York Times article
Challenging the status quo. Irish Times article
The fictions of Foucault's scholarship. Andrew Scull and letters in reply
The mad doctor: The extraordinary story of Dr Rufus May, the former psychiatric patient Rufus May
BMJ Review of Critical psychiatry: The limits of madness
What did you say? Tracey Hayes
Review of Moving beyond Prozac, DSM and the new psychiatry: The birth of postpsychiatry
Most Published Research Findings Are False.But a Little Replication Goes a Long Way. Ramal Moonesinghe, Muin J. Khoury, A. Cecile J. W. Janssens
The survivor's voice. Radical Psychology 2006, volume 5
Havidol: When more is not enough. Justine Cooper
Tom Cruise takes on Lord Psychopharm and his psychiatrists of the Round Tablets
An appreciation of Self-harm: Perspectives from personal experience (edited by Louise Pembroke). Mark Cresswell
Posted comments on Mental illness is just about life experiences
Chapter-by-chapter description of The Gene Illusion. Jay Joseph
Rebalancing the approach to mental health. Pat Bracken & Marcellino Smyth
Community psychiatry inquiries must be fair, open and transparent. Michael King et al
Letter to editor, Observer re: Challenge to mental health homicide rate. Duncan Double
Letter to editor, Observer re: Community treatment orders making services more bureaucratic and defensive. Duncan Double
You're making us sick. Tim Cantopher
Is critical psychiatry a threat? Adam James
Review of Contesting psychiatry: Social movements in mental health. Elisabetta Sirgiovanni
Review of Mental Health at the Crossroads. Tony O'Brien
Review of Postpsychiatry: Mental Health in a Postmodern World. Jack Piachaud
Prejudice and schizophrenia: A review of the mental illness is an illness like any other approach. J Read, N Haslam, L Sayce, E Davies.
Mind the gaps. Adam James
Review of Critical Psychiatry by David Ingleby. Christian Perring
Copy of information on First Person Accounts from 
How do we recover? An analysis of psychiatric survivor oral histories. Oryx Cohen
Narratives of madness, as told from within. Gail Hornstein
Bibliography of first-person narratives of madness in english. Gail Hornstein
Post-psychiatry: Good ideas, bad language and getting out of the box. P. Barker & P. Buchanan-Barker
The troubled relationship between psychiatry and sociology. David Pilgrim & Anne Rogers
Introduction to Health Skepticism. Peter Mansfield
Was RD Laing a postmodern psychiatrist? Tony Benning
Psychotherapy perspectives in medication management. Simon Sobo
On the banality of positive thinking. Simon Sobo
Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents: A caution. Simon Sobo
A reevaluation of the relationship between psychiatric diagnosis and chemical imbalances. Simon Sobo
Mood stabilizers and mood swings: In search of a definition. Simon Sobo
ADHD and other sins of our children. Simon Sobo [Shorter version]
Children: our treasure. Dan L. Edmunds
Misrepresentation. Tracey Hayes
Soul doctor or soul destroyer? Tracey Hayes
Review of Moving beyond Prozac, DSM and the new psychiatry. Jennifer Hansen and reply by the author Brad Lewis.
Sequel to only you can cure yourself. Ann Lawson
Child abuse can cause schizophrenia. Report of a debate in which the motion was passed by 114 to 52 votes.
Politicising self-harm. Louise Pembroke
A home is broken: The closure of a Philadelphia Association household. Marie-Laure Davenport
Scepticism and psychotherapy - a Wittgensteinian approach. John Heaton
Respect against all odds - the PA community households. Paul Gordon
Style, sorcery, alienation. John Heaton
Do antidepressants cure or create abnormal brain states? Joanna Moncrieff & David Cohen
A psychiatrist's view. Alec Jenner
Why is it so difficult to stop psychiatric drug treatment? It may have nothing to do with the original problem. Joanna Moncrieff
Healthy skepticism about antidepressants for children and adolescents. Peter Mansfield, Jon Jureidini, Melissa Raven & Anne Tonkin
'Safe self harm' - is it possible? RCN Congress discusses the nurse.s role in enabling safe self harm - introduced by Chris Holley.
A collection of articles on disease mongering in PLoS Medicine
The fight against disease mongering: Generating knowledge for action. Ray Moynihan & David Henry
Why most published research findings are false. John P. A. Ioannidis
The latest mania: Selling bipolar disorder. David Healy
'My tutor said to me, this talk is dangerous' Adam James
Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism. Joanna Moncrieff
Crisis resolution and home treatment. Edited by Marcellino Smyth
Fix the diagnosis not the children. Janice Hill
'The myth of mental illness' Thomas S.Szasz. Transcript of lecture.
Review of Peter Lehmann's Coming off psychiatric drugs: Successful withdrawal from neuroleptics, antidepressants, lithium, carbamazepine and tranquillisers. Karl Koehler
NHS cuts hit mental health care The National Director for Mental Health in England says that NHS cuts are hitting some services '''in a severe way''. 
American Journal of Psychiatry advertise duloxetine with its e-mail listing of journal contents by giving link to company video that is said to illustrate how affecting the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine in the body may alleviate the symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) Play the video
Court filing makes public my previously suppressed analysis of Paxil's effects. Peter Breggin
Wonder drug inspires deep, unwavering love of pharmaceutical companies. 
Professional shame DBDouble, in reply to Justice for a hero of hidden horrors. David Southall
Are there statins in the water? Health care and the drug industry. Timothy Doty
Do you feel unmotivated? Health care and the drug industry. Timothy Doty
Prescribing under the influence? Health care and the drug industry. Timothy Doty
Safer mental health services: They also need to be sound and supportive. The Norwich perspective. D B Double
Harm minimisation: Limiting the damage of self-injury. Louis Pembroke
The Tao of therapy. Theodor Itten
Citizenship and psychiatry. Pat Bracken
Coping with coming off: Service user-led research. Jan Wallcraft
Globalization and children's mental health. Sami Timimi
Racism and mental health of black and minority ethnic groups. Kwame McKenzie
Sickiatry. Kenneth Eng
Teenscreen: A front group for the psycho-pharmaceutical industrial complex. PsychSearch.net
Psychiatric drugs: An assault on the human condition. Street Spirit interview with Robert Whitaker
RD Laing and the nature of evil. Juan Galis-Menendez
Broken brains or flawed studies: A critical review of ADHD neuroimaging research. Jonathan Leo & David Cohen
The biology of mental illness. Jonathan Leo
Protest and co-option: The recent fate of the psychiatric patient's voice. David Pilgrim
Sanity, madness and science: RD Laing and critical psychology. Ron Roberts
The future of critical psychiatry. John Hopton
Bradley Lewis advocates new path for psychiatry
Historizing Indian psychiatry. Amit Ranjan Basu
Schizophrenia: Medical students are taught it.s all in the genes, but are they hearing the whole story? Jonathan Leo & Jay Joseph
The myth of evidence-based psychotherapy. John Marzillier
Learning to live with voices. Sandra Escher, Mark Hayward, David Kingdon & Louise Pembroke
You.d better believe it: Accepting and working within the client.s own reality. Tamasin Knight
"My lobotomy": Howard Dully's story. NPR
Taking on the drug defenders. Time Pacific
Bitter pills. Time Pacific
Essay questions role of antidepressants. WebMDHealth
Study: Public misled by depression ads. United Press International
Some drugs work to treat depression, but it isn't clear how. Wall Street Journal
The rise and rise of ADHD. Sami Timimi & Nick Radcliffe
"ADHD is biobabble" Interview with Sami Timimi
Advertisments for SSRIs may be misleading. Medscape medical news
Historian of psychoanalysis whose 'subversive' research upset Freud's family and followers. Morton Schatzman
Laing and psychotherapy. John Heaton
Letter to the Editor, New Yorker magazine. Hunter Yost
Serotonin and depression: A disconnect between the advertisements and the scientific literature. Jeffery R Lacasse & Jonathan Leo
Psychotherapy misconceived. James Baxter
What chance postpsychiatry? Phil Barker & Poppy Buchanan-Barker
A case for psychologists becoming clinical supervisors. David Pilgrim
Challenging the globalisation of biomedical psychiatry. Phil Thomas et al
The bio-bio-bio model of madness. John Read
Wishful thinking: Antidepressant drugs in children. Anne Tonkin and Jon Jureidini
'Dangerous and severe personality disorder': A psychiatric manifestation of the risk society. Kevin Corbett & Tristen Westwood
Forgotten pioneers: The unwritten history of the therapeutic community movement. Malcolm Pines
Maxwell Jones. David Clark
How we learned to operate therapeutic communities. David Clark
Regulating the drug industry transparently. John Abraham
Social psychiatry and sociology. David Pilgrim & Anne Rogers
The origins of critical psychiatry. David Ingleby
Efficacy of antidepressants in adults. Joanna Moncrieff & Irving Kirsch
Cruising Szasz. Jeffery Schaler
Psychiatric abuse in Ireland. Sean Fleming.
Effect of globalisation on children's mental health. Sami Timimi
Deinstitutionalization of psychiatry in the Netherlands: or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in mental health. Philip Schrameijer
The tide of prescribing for depression is turning. Des Spence
Reducing reductionism. Reclaiming psychiatry. Wesley Sowers.
Our acute problem. Rufus May
Review of Madhouse by Andrew Scull. D B Double
Normal and abnormal: Georges Canguilhem and the question of mental pathology. Victoria Margree
Preface to the second edition of Critical Psychiatry by David Ingleby
Hearing voices: A phenomenological-hermeneutic approach. Philip Thomas, Patrick Bracken & Ivan Leudar
Lancet review of Sami Timimi's Naughty Boys
Brother Beast: A Personal Memoir of David Cooper. Steven Ticktin
Rethinking models of psychotropic drug action. J. Moncrieff & D. Cohen.
Book review of John Read et al Models of Madness
"Knowing what ain't so": R.D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. Thomas Szasz
Trying to knit fog? An e-debate between Malcolm Weller and Duncan Double
Messing with the mind. Review of Steven Rose's The 21st Century Mind
Cross cultural perspectives on the medicalisation of human suffering. Derek Summerfield.
Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry: who pays the piper? Joanna Moncrieff, Steve Hopker & Philip Thomas
Antidepressants: A triumph of marketing over science? David O. Antonuccio, David D. Burns & William G. Danton
Existential knots: Laing's anti-psychiatry and Kierkegaard's existentialism. Antonio Palomo-Lamarca
The recognition of antidepressant discontinuation reactions. D B Double
Drug dominated psychiatry in N. Ireland. Sean Fleming
Diagnosis of childhood depression is problematic; reference to antidepressant usage. Richard Skelton
The failure to fully inform patients of the dangers of neuroleptics. Sean Fleming
Rethinking childhood depression. Sami Timimi
Charismatic ideas. Rex Haigh
Will soaps or science open others' minds? Review of Richard Bentall's Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature (2003). Philip Thomas
Neuroscience and psychiatric residency training. Donald Mender
Psychiatric fraud and force: A critique of E. Fuller Torrey. Thomas Szasz
Paradigm shift in psychiatry. D B Double
Book review of The truth about drug companies. D B Double
What is mental illness? James Baxter
Depression and depressive illness. James Baxter
Choosing a psychotherapist. James Baxter
A dangerous dose. Review of The truth about drug companies by Marcia Angell. Carl Elliott
Critical psychiatry in practice. Philip Thomas & Patrick Bracken
Cultural studies of psychiatry. Special issue of The Journal of Medical Humanities
The role of premenstrual dysphoric disorder in the subjectification of women. Jane Ussher
A very childish moral panic: Ritalin. Toby Miller & Marie Claire Leger
Psychiatry and postmodern theory. Bradley Lewis
Distorted packaging: Marketing depression as illness, drugs as cure. Paula Gardner
Prozac and the post-human politics of cyborgs. Bradley E Lewis
A reply to Bradley Lewis's "Prozac and the post-human politics of cyborgs". David DeGrazia
Response to David DeGrazia. Bradley Lewis
Is it me or my brain? Depression and neuroscientific facts. Joseph Dumit
Selling sanity through gender: The psychodynamics of psychotropic advertising. Jonathan M Metzl
Being approximate: The Ganser syndrome and beyond. Mady Schutzman
'Psychopathology', 'psychosis' and the Kundalini: 'Postmodern' perspectives on unusual subjective experience. Richard House
Review article: Therapy and postmodernist thought. Richard House
Review of Law, liberty and psychiatry by Thomas Szsaz. Stephen D'Arcy
Beyond the medicalisation of "challenging behaviour"; or Protecting our children from "pervasive labelling disorder". Richard House
Commentary: Some thoughts on difference, the .profession., and transcending the ideologies of late modernity. Richard House
The statutory regulation of psychotherapy. Still time to think again. Richard House
Beyond biomedical models: A perspective from critical psychiatry. DB Double
The truth about the drug companies. Marcia Angell
Loren Mosher obituary. Leon Redler
Lone voice. An interview with Loren Mosher.
Treating oppression and depression. Sean Fleming
Biomedical bias of the American Psychiatric Association. Duncan Double
A critique of the international consensus statement on ADHD. Sami Timimi et al
Szasz, Laing and existential psychotherapy. Daniel Burston
Giving Marmor credit for the idea that homosexuality is not a disease is undeserved. Jeffery A Schaler
Postpsychiatry is not another model. Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas
Antidepressant makers withhold data on children. Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer
What they left behind. Suitcases from an insane asylum tell us of lives long lost. Jennifer Gonnerman
Schizophrenia: The .not so nice. guidelines. Phil Barker and Poppy Buchanan-Barker
Review of The Gene Illusion by Jay Joseph. Richard Holdsworth
The limits of biological psychiatry. Douglas C Smith
The answer on the mind-body question as a crucial means for social control and oppression. Rene Talbot
The new practitioner - the emergence of the post-modern clinician. Sami Timimi
ADHD is best understood as a cultural construct. Sami Timimi
Reply by Scientific Panel for the Fast for Freedom in Mental Health to American Psychiatric Association Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Illness
Is psychiatry for sale? Joanna Moncrieff
Poverty and discourse. David Harper
Introducing social constructionist and critical psychology into clinical psychology training. David Harper,
Storying policy: Constructions of risk in proposals to reform UK mental health legislation. David Harper
Suicidality, violence and mania caused by selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs): A review and analysis. Peter Breggin
Double blind random bluff. Joanna Moncrieff & Duncan Double
Deconstructing paranoia: An analysis of the discourses associated with the concept of paranoid delusion. Dave Harper
Lilly awards themselves a NICE recommendation for olanzapine. D B Double
Still crazy after all these years. Jeannette de Wyze
Unfree associations. Inside psychoanalytic institutes. Douglas Kirsner
Letter to the editor, Observer. D B Double re Its not only Frank. The inadequacy of mental health provision must be addressed now Mary Riddell and reply
Reply to American Psychiatric Association Statement on Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Illness. D B Double
It would be NICE to control the marketing of risperidone. DB Double
The cure of souls in the therapeutic state. Thomas Szasz
Book review Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature (2003) by Richard Bentall DB Double
Pseudoscience in psych. Alex Chernavsky
We must challenge the way we perceive mental distress. Dan Watson & John Cooper
On the legacy of Ronald Laing. FA Jenner
Challenging the precautionary principle. Helene Guldberg
How I learned my trade. David Clark
The right to be at risk. Joe Berke
On our own terms. Jan Wallcraft with Jim Read and Angela Sweeney
Still Crazy After All Those Years; Local Shrink Assails the Schizophrenia Racket. Jeannette De Wyze
Understanding psychiatry's resistance to change. Terry Lynch
Psychotherapy: How can we help? David Smail
Psychiatry and the human sciences. Mark Turner
What does it mean to say that antidepressants have helped millions of people round the world? D B Double
A shocking treatment? Lucy Johnstone
The legacy of RD Laing. Special issue of Janus Head, Spring 2001
Review of Pathological Child Psychiatry and the Medicalization of Childhood by Sami Timimi D B Double
Letter to the Psychologist re Peer commentary - To prescribe or not to prescribe - Is that the question? D B Double
The fall of the house of Kraepelin: 'The dialetics of schizophrenia'. Phil Thomas
Response to International consensus statement on ADHD. Duncan Double
Depressed patients need more than drugs and psychiatrists. Sharon Williams.
Can a biomedical approach to psychiatric practice be justified? Duncan Double
Open letter to Kamal Ahmed, Political Editor, The Observer, re his article "Britons swallow cure-all drugs" Duncan Double
Open letter to Jo Revill, Health Editor, The Observer, re her article "Doctors fail to spot manic-depression" Duncan Double
Hanky, panky in the pharmaceutical industry. Seymour Fisher
Depression, psychiatry and the use of ECT. Pat Bracken
Is psychiatry hearing voices too? Brook Durling
Mad, bad and dangerous. Tim Luckhurst
Critical thinking in psychiatry: A positive agenda for change. D B Double
Understanding 'mental illness'. David Ingleby
The virtue of caring with: Exploring the necessary conditions for healing in mental health nursing. Phil Barker.
Chapter on RD Laing from Just Listening. Steven Gans and Leon Redler
Redressing the imbalance. Duncan Double
Sins of the Fathers. Is child molestation a sickness or a crime? Thomas Szasz
A service user/survivor position on psychiatric drugs. Peter Campbell
System survivors: Is there anything we can do? Peter Campbell
Yes, there is a placebo effect, but is there a powerful antidepressant drug effect? Irving Kirsch
Democracy and mental health: The idea of post-psychiatry. Pat Bracken
Understanding the biopsychological approach: Conceptualisation. Paul Gilbert
Ethics and psychiatric knowledge. EK Ledermann
The service user/survivor movement. Peter Campbell
User-led research. Towards a radically different mental health system. Alison Faulkner & Vicky Nicholls.
Taking over the asylum. Marian Barnes.
Is the desire for safety driven by the needs of the mentally ill, by fear of litigation, or by bad press? Carsten Dernedde
Drug treatment in modern psychiatry: The history of a delusion. Joanna Moncrieff
Thinking about a drug-free culture for mental health services. Jim Read.
Unity within diversity: Mental health in the global century. Eugene Brody
Speaking out. Craig Newnes
So farewell then, CMHTs. Guy Holmes
Surviving a flawed mental health system Simon Gelsthorpe.
The biopsychological model in Anglo-American psychiatry: Past, present and future? David Pilgrim.
Options and dilemmas facing British mental health social work Shula Ramon.
Going Social: Championing a holistic model of mental distress within professional education Jerry Tew.
Madness, murder and media. A realistic critique of the psychiatric disciplines in post-liberal society. Peter Morrall
Last words of a medical historian. Andrew Scull. Review of Roy Porter's Madness: A Brief History
The limits of psychiatry. Duncan Double
A critique of psychiatry and an invitation to dialogue. Ron Leifer
Royal College of Psychiatrists webguide to critical psychiatry. Duncan Double
The back half - Crazy for you. Roy Porter
Insane psychiatry. A profession run amok. Nicholas Regush
Trial by kangaroo court. Denise McKenna
The grapes of Roth Book review by Peter Sedgwick of David Ingleby (ed) (1981) Critical Psychiatry: the politics of mental health
Discovering hope for recovery from a British perspective. Piers Allott & Linda Loganathan
Vincent's bandage: The art of selling a drug for bipolar disorder. Phil Thomas & Pat Bracken
Stopping over-medication should be the mental health movement's first task. Nathaniel S Lehrman
Psychiatry: Still disagreeing. Lucy Johnstone
Random excerpts from Commonsense Rebellion: Debunking Psychiatry, Confronting Society
by Bruce E. Levine
Book review by Lucy Johnstone of This is Madness Too
Modernising the social model in mental health. Maria Duggan
R D Laing: Maverick of the mind
The Berlin runaway house - three years of antipsychiatric practice. Iris Hoelling
Critical psychiatry: Seeing psychiatry as it really is. D B Double
"Can I see the test results please?" Craig Newnes
Plight of India's mentally ill. Jill McGivering's BBC report on the conditions of people with mental health problems in the Indian town of Ervadi.
It's time to stop permitting abuse. Sylvia Caras
Mix 'n' match? Lucy Johnstone argues that the NSF does not do enough to challenge a biomedical view of mental health
Psychology Politics Resistance: Asylum in the 21st Century - Report on day conference. Ian Parker
Psychiatry and the dominance of the bio-medical model. John Cooper
Can psychiatry abandon the "medical model"? Duncan Double
A year of care. Diana Rose
The pursuit of happiness. Fiona Campbell. - Problems of lithium discontinuation
Letter to the editor, British Journal of Psychiatry about Editorial by Kendell RE (2001) The distinction between mental and physical illness
"Consumers" in name only Jon Ossoff
Is mental illness a valid concept? Richard Holt
'Not made of wood' - 2001: On the power of medical maya Jan Foudraine
Loren Mosher's generic letter of response to questions usually raised by his website - what to do about medication, withdrawal reactions and how best to handle a crisis
Post-psychiatry: A new direction for mental health Pat Bracken & Phil Thomas
A unitary theory of stigmatisation Rahman Haghighat
The Biopsychiatric Model of "Mental Illness": A Critical Bibliography by Loren R. Mosher M.D.
Summary of talk from Andy Bithell from ECT Anonymous
Review of Johnstone L (2000) Users and abusers of psychiatry: a critical look at psychiatric practice. (Second edition) London: Routledge. Duncan Double
Integrating critical psychiatry into psychiatric training. Duncan Double
Schizophrenia and the Emperor's (not so) new clothes. Paul Baker
Alienation: Social relations and therapeutic relations. RD Hinshelwood
The Crisis of Present-Day Psychiatry: The Loss of the Personal. Osborne P. Wiggins and Michael Alan Schwartz
The psychiatric repression of Thomas Szasz: Its social and political significance Ronald Leifer
The future of psychiatry. N McLaren
What is wrong with psychiatry?. Al Siebert
A journey through madness. Donnard White
Does Psychiatric Disorder Affect the Likelihood of Violent Offending? A Review and Critique of the Major Findings. Ed Mitchell
Critical psychiatry. Phil Thomas
Psychiatric imperialism: The medicalisation of modern living. Joanna Moncrieff
Critical psychiatry Duncan Double
Abuses of power in counselling and psychotherapy. Lynne Henry, Junior Research Associate at Newcastle University, UK.
Can psychiatry be retrieved from a biological approach? Duncan Double
Commentary on New England Journal of Medicine editorial "Understanding the Causes of Schizophrenia" by Nancy Andreasen
Response to American Journal of Psychiatry editorial "Searching for the neuropathology of schizophrenia: Neuroimaging strategies and findings" by JA Lieberman
How much is the response to psychotropic medication due to the placebo effect? Duncan Double
Being Mentally Ill (1999) Preface and chapter one of updated third edition
