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...
Psychiatry cannot learn while it pathologises diversity and dissent
A psychiatric diagnosis is supposed to help people make sense of distress and guide individualised care. Yet psychiatry holds an extraordinary power: criticism of...
Nobody told me to do this: What it means to be a dissident psychiatrist
Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient.
I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit...
Conference to explore alternatives to coercive mental health care
The 18th annual Critical Voices Network Ireland (CVNI) conference will take place at University College Cork November 12 and 13, bringing together speakers and...
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 sexually abused in childhood have been failed by mental...