Please SIGN THE PETITION to prevent DSM-5 from compromising patient safety and scientific integrity.
Statement of Concern – Complete Version Note: DSM-5 refers to the American Psychiatric Association’s fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of [...Read more]
Royal College of Psychiatrists: Abolish use of formal psychiatric diagnostic systems like ICD & DSM
Abolish use of formal psychiatric diagnostic systems like ICD & DSM Psychiatric diagnoses are not valid. Use of psychiatric diagnosis increases stigma. Using psychiatric diagnosis [...Read more]
Mental Health Campaigners Welcome New Book About Schizophrenia
Published in The Guardian, 5th July 2011. Mental health campaigners welcome book about schizophrenia. The letters, journals and scribbled observations of David, diagnosed with schizophrenia, [...Read more]
Mental Health Campaigners Welcome New Book About Schizophrenia
The letters, journals and scribbled observations of David, diagnosed with schizophrenia, have been collated for a new book. A positive piece published in the Guardian, 5th [...Read more]
Normalcy 2011
ASYLUM CONFERENCE 2011 SEPTEMBER 14-15 MANCHESTER Asylum Collective and our friends and supporters in the Critical Psychiatry Network, Hearing Voices Network and Psychology Politics Resistance [...Read more]
What is your Opinion of Psychiatric Diagnosis?
This is an important paper written by Steven Coles and colleagues about psychiatric diagnosis. What do you think? Have your say! What is your Opinion [...Read more]
Demedicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition.
By: Mark Rapley, Joanna Moncrieff and Jacqui Dillon
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, 12th October 2011
Demedicalising Misery: Psychiatry, Psychology and the Human Condition. Co-edited with Mark Rapley and Joanna Moncrieff. Published by Palgrave Macmillan. Thomas Szasz (1960) suggested that the [...Read more]
Foreword to David’s Box: The journal and letters of a young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, 1960-1971.
By: edited by Professor Richard Hallam and Professor Michael Bender with a foreword by Jacqui Dillon
Published in: David’s Box: The journal and letters of a young man diagnosed as schizophrenic, 1960-1971., July 2011
A positive piece published in the Guardian, 5th July 2011 by Mary O’Hara about this important new book – David’s Box: The journal and letters of a [...Read more]