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Psychiatry: Neither a magic bullet nor a simple target

Psychiatry: Neither a magic bullet nor a simple target

Medical approaches to mental health often seem under fire. Huw Green reviews a spirited defence of a medically oriented psychiatry. The Medical Model in Mental Health: An Explanation and Evaluation […]

23rd September 2019 Comment1 Comment on Psychiatry: Neither a magic bullet nor a simple target
Where are the ‘psycho-sceptics’?

Where are the ‘psycho-sceptics’?

Those who advocate psychological therapies are good at being critical. Especially when it comes to medicine. But, argue  Huw Green and Leigh Emery psychology-types may need to be a bit more sceptical […]

28th January 201629th January 2016 Comment, Culture, Guest Post7 Comments on Where are the ‘psycho-sceptics’?

Against Mindfulness

Mindfulness, it gets everywhere. From mental health services, to schools and into the House of Commons pupils, prisoners and politicians are taking a breath, holding that thought and just…noticing. It […]

30th May 20145th November 2015 Comment6 Comments on Against Mindfulness

Guest post. The manufacture of madness? Why social construction in psychiatry is not as simple as it seems

Anyone who has spent time reading or listening to psychologists recently is likely to have encountered the idea that mental health problems are ‘social constructs’. What is meant by this […]

27th January 20145th November 2015 Comment, Guest Post28 Comments on Guest post. The manufacture of madness? Why social construction in psychiatry is not as simple as it seems

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