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No Explanation, Just Labels: Critical Psychiatry Network Letter to the Guardian on the Dangers of Diagnostic Expansion

Evgeny Legedin 25/02/2026 No Comments

By Critical Psychiatry Network This letter, signed by members of the Critical Psychiatry Network, GPs and doctors from other specialities was initially submitted to the Guardian and subsequently to the

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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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Unconventional Views on ADHD “Treatment”: A Calm Look at Cochrane’s Evidence on Stimulants

Evgeny Legedin 16/11/2025 No Comments

The dominant narrative - reinforced by clinical guidelines, public campaigns, and a strained NHS - presents stimulants like Methylphenidate and amphetamines as the cornerstone of evidence-based ADHD care. Yet when

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