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What does the social model of disability have to do with emotional and mental...
Language and Framing: talking about what we mean when we talk about “disability”
The language we use is influenced by what we know (or think we know) but it also influences how we think. Psychologists...
Why is the mental health system so reluctant to explore non-medical routes to recovery?
I was delighted to be asked by Liam MacGabhann, a co-founder and member of Mad in Ireland to write a blog about some important research recently undertaken through the School of Nursing and Midwifery...
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‘Substance use and mental health issues do not develop in a vacuum’
This is part 2 of a series in relation to dual diagnosis, an issue that...
Event: Challenging current responses to young people in distress
Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI), in partnership with ChangeWithEmma, Mad In
Ireland, and with the Institute...
Cork café service will support people to deal with an immediate mental health crisis
Solace Cafés provide an out-of-hours friendly and supportive community crisis prevention and crisis support service...
Mental health and problem substance use discussed at Oireachtas committee
This is part 1 of a series of posts in relation to dual diagnosis, an...
Training for new hearing voice facilitators begins in April
Hearing Voices Groups have been an important resource for people who hear voices for over...
New on Mad in America
Most Psychopharmacology Textbooks Have Financial Conflicts of Interest
Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention
Threatened for Telling the Truth: Polish Journalist Speaks Out
The Medicalisation of Childhood Behaviours Does More Harm than Good
Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo for About 85% of People
RESEARCH
Led by researchers in Trinity College Dublin, the PROTECT Study, seeks to identify priorities for future research on reducing and stopping psychiatric medications. Interested parties take a survey on questions that users would like to see addressed. Take the survey here.
