‘Discriminatory’ new law set to exclude people who experience extreme mental distress
THE Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Amend Bill 2022 is making important amendments to our new capacity legislation (the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015), which is...
Upcoming event will examine critical perspectives on the lived experience of distress
On 16 and 17 November 2022, after two years of having offered the annual CVNI conference online, we look forward to welcoming around 400...
Their brains are not broken
I once ran a therapeutic school in London for kids with complex trauma. Sam was one of our most brilliant and most challenging students....
Side effects of bombshell study debunking ‘chemical imbalance’ myth
Reaction to the Moncrieff et al study which reviewed decades of research and found that depression is not caused by a serotonin deficiency or a ‘chemical imbalance’ has been reverberating...
Top 10 myths about the critics of psychiatry
Following the publication of Joanna Moncrieff and Mark Horowitz’s Chemical Imbalance review last month I have been increasingly aware of the strongly held and often...