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The Mental Health Industrial Complex: Absorbing Distress in Decaying Capitalism

Evgeny Legedin 28/01/2026 No Comments

By Sami Timimi In this original essay, child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sami Timimi applies a Marxist lens to the escalating mental health crisis in the West. He argues

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Beyond Clinics: Co-Creating Italy’s Mental Health Future with Law 180

Evgeny Legedin 26/11/2025 No Comments

By Pino PINI Having worked in English psychiatric services for over ten years, after working in Italy for several decades and experiencing the transition from psychiatric hospital to community, reading

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Transition from the Clinical to the Community Context

Margreet 06/02/2024 No Comments

By PINO PINI, Psychiatrist in Italy and the United Kingdom, MHE board member. Reflections on occasion of two Hearing Voices events. In my professional experience I have witnessed various significant

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Psychiatric hospitals and instrumental rationality: toward a democratic practice. Wright D., 1998

Margreet 08/02/2016

Link to: Psychiatric hospitals and instrumental rationality Attachments: 373 [Link to Psychiatric hospitals and instrumental rationality] 0 kB

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More equal societies have less mental illness: what should therapists do on Monday morning? Wright D., 2015

Margreet 08/02/2016

Attachments: Wright 2015 Equality and MH [More equal societies have less mental illness: what should therapists do on Monday morning? Wright D., 2015] 152 kB

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Psychiatric Drugs as agents of trauma. Whitfield C

rhodri 29/04/2015

Psychiatric Drugs as agents of trauma. Whitfield C

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Children and Young People’s IAPT: Inspiring innovtion or more of the same? Timimi S

rhodri 20/04/2015

Children Services IAPT

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Schizophrenia: a critical psychiatry perspective. Moncrieff J & Middleton H

rhodri 20/04/2015

Schizophrenia CP perspective

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Review of 'Psychiatry on the Edge' by R. W. Pies. Double D

rhodri 24/02/2015

PsycCRITIQUES January 26, 2015, Vol. 60, No. 4, Article 4 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038619 © 2015 American Psychological Association This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal.

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Personal consequences of the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Thomas P et al

rhodri 05/12/2014

Personal consequences of the diagnosis of schizophrenia: A preliminary report from the inquiry into the schizophrenia label. 2014. Philip Thomas, Patience Seebohm, Jan Wallcraft, Jayasree Kalathil and Suman Fernando Survey

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