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Drug safety warnings: The difference a border makes
Recently Gretchen LeFever Watson wrote on Mad in America about the different boxed warnings on SSRI drugs in Canada and the US. Patients in Canada have been warned since 2004 that these medications carry...
Has autism become another kind of pathology?
The person underneath the diagnosis
Getting sober and finding out I was autistic saved my life.
That is not a metaphor, and it isn’t something I say lightly. For more than a decade, I had been...
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Drug safety warnings: The difference a border makes
Recently Gretchen LeFever Watson wrote on Mad in America about the different boxed warnings on...
Has autism become another kind of pathology?
The person underneath the diagnosis
Getting sober and finding out I was autistic saved my life.
That...
Psychiatry cannot learn while it pathologises diversity and dissent
A psychiatric diagnosis is supposed to help people make sense of distress and guide individualised...
Conference to explore alternatives to coercive mental health care
The 18th annual Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) conference will take place at University College...
Film festival: “Rethinking Mental Health” takes places in Norway
Meet filmmakers from Norway and abroad who have all contributed to strong and touching productions...
Documentary challenging medical model of mental health treatment to screen in Ireland
A new documentary exploring the relationship between childhood trauma and mental health diagnoses is set...
Open Dialogue approach cuts psychiatric hospital use in major trial
A non-medical approach to mental health treatment – Open Dialogue – can reduce hospital admissions...
Psychiatry apologises for failing survivors of child sex abuse. What happens now?
The UK Royal College of Psychiatrists has issued a remarkable position paper, stating that people...
How lived experience has become collective resistance
Merrick Daniel Pilling is an Associate Professor and Interim Co-Director of the School of Disability...
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