Scepsis and science, reflection and humanism
By Pino Pini. A summary from the SE&LMHS project presentation at the HPFT Recovery Conference, Watford 8/10/2019. The SE&LMHS project is based on the assumption that mental health is not
By Joanna Moncrieff. This blog was inspired by a talk I gave at the conference of the American Association for Philosophy and Psychiatry in May 2017. The title of this talk was: Many
The Toronto Critical Psychiatry Reading and Discussion Group has been meeting since 2018. It has been open to all interested people. The aims of the group have included: 1) a
By Hugh Middleton. During the pre-Covid years, the Critical Psychiatry Network ran a series of successful one-day conferences at the University of Nottingham each April. A move to London was
By Joanna Moncrieff. The Critical Psychiatry Network’s 2017 conference “Recovery in a Time of Austerity” raised some tricky issues for the audience and like-minded people, but also pointed to the potential
CPN co-chairs, Hugh Middleton and Joanna Moncrieff, went to meet Luciana Berger MP (the shadow minister for Mental Health) to convey the importance of a Critical Psychiatry perspective in developing
A recent meta-analysis of antipsychotic drug treatment for people with ‘treatment refractory schizophrenia’ suggests clozapine may not be better than other antipsychotics. Clozapine has been the mainstay of treatment for
Suicides in the Unites States have reached a 30-year high. The steepest rise is in the middle-aged. The rate of suicide in women rose more than in men, but male
A recent spot check by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) found that Southern Health NHS Mental Health Trust, previously criticised for its inadequate investigations of serious incidents and deaths in
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