Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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November 2024

Withdrawing from psychiatric drugs
(the real problem)
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A MAD bill in the Senate.
A change of emphasis today as I want to look at politics for a while.
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This is not about ADHD
In between their conniptions over the American election (the one where the majority doesn’t win), The Economist carried an article on ADHD.
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Amazing psychiatric breakthrough: talking works.
A paper by twelve authors from Belgrade [1] was published earlier this year in the Journal of Affective Disorders Reports on managing depression without…
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October 2024

Moral panics revisited
The American Society for ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) will shortly release its guidelines on treatment of adult ADHD, thereby joining progressive…
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Psychiatry’s addiction.
A paper published a few weeks ago in the journal Molecular Psychiatry [1] has stirred up the debate on whether abruptly stopping antidepressants causes…
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Personality through a positivist lens
Spoiler: it’s invisible.
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Goodbye, critical psychiatry
It was fun while it lasted.
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This Week’s Crisis in Mental Health
Crisis (n): a time of intense difficulty; a point at which major decisions must be made in order to avert serious risk or danger
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