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Activist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work.

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On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...

Experts challenge Streeting’s claim about ‘over-diagnosis’, and bring some nuance to the debate.

By medicalising normal behaviour we’re damaging the young’s wellbeing, Dr Sami Timimi tells Anna Maxted

Psychiatry has offered many biological theories, but the ones that stick are the effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.

Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

Dr Jess exposes five years of the shocking tactics and targeting caused by questioning psychiatry and psychology.

John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners.

Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

America has been sold a lucrative myth

Does rising mental health awareness make well people think they require treatment, asks Helen Rumbelow

Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

Psychology's infamous bully

Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions

Translational Psychiatry - Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach

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Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

In recent years, social media has allowed neurodivergent people to find community online – but is there a darker side to the ‘subculturalification’ of mental health conditions?

Lady Gabriella Windsor's husband Thomas Windsor, 45, had suffered an adverse reaction to prescribed medication, an inquest heard.

Philosopher Justin Garson discusses the potential benefit of looking at madness not as disease or defect, but as a designed feature.

Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, an...

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Left-wing critique has always challenged powerful vested interests that prefer not to be disturbed.

Billions of dollars later, neuroscientists are still struggling to address the mental health crisis.