International conference in University College Cork challenges coercion in mental health care
When does mental health care cross the line from treatment into coercion, and can practices intended to help people experiencing distress actually cause harm?
These...
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...
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...
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...