Archive - Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

Does Childhood Matter?

It sure felt like it.

Mar 11 •

The baddies are winning.

Mar 4 •

February 2025

Shooting the Messenger

Psychiatry’s antipsychiatry obsession.

Feb 25 •

Opportunity Knocks

After last week’s post on involuntary treatment, my colleague asked:

Feb 18 •

Should We Lock People Up?

But that’s what we’ve always done.

Feb 11 •

Is Autism a Natural Kind? *

I first saw an autistic child during my psychiatry term as a medical student, many years ago.

Feb 4 •

January 2025

Leading the Way.

Did anybody remember the map?

Jan 28 •

The Rigours of Science.

A reader sent a link to an article on the gut microbiome in schizophrenia with the lurid title: “Gut microbiome breakthroughs revolutionise…

Jan 21 •

Capping the Capo

More on personality disorder

Jan 14 •

Pass the antidepressants, please.

Perhaps 2024 will one day be seen as a turning point in psychiatry’s long-term project to drug as many of the population as possible.

Jan 7 •

December 2024

A Fellow Feeling.

An interesting week.

Dec 31, 2024 •

Personality Disorder.

It's not just the poor.

Dec 24, 2024 •

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