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Girl Interrupted @girl-interrupted.bsky.social · May 27

Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June

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An Audience with an Ally - Prof Peter Kinderman

Activist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work.

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James Moore @jfmoore.bsky.social · Apr 16

Delighted to see that the @mad-in-america.bsky.social Rethinking Mental Health #podcast is number 1 in Goodpods #Psychiatry all time chart.

Give us a listen if you get the chance 🎧 goodpods.com/leaderboard/...

Best Psychiatry Podcasts [2025] Top 21 Shows - Goodpods

Discover the top 21 Psychiatry podcasts in 2025. Listen, review and see what Psychiatry podcasts your friends are listening to. | Listen on Goodpods

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The Power Threat Meaning Framework @ptm-framework.bsky.social · Apr 6

Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social

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How do we talk about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions without dismissing people’s suffering?

On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...

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Richard Pemberton @socratext.bsky.social · Mar 23

Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...

Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head

Experts challenge Streeting’s claim about ‘over-diagnosis’, and bring some nuance to the debate.

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Mar 19

He isn't disputing that their suffering is real 'It's our
response that's the issue. We routinely
pathologise, label and medicate kids' emotions and behaviours'. New book by Sami Timimi out tomorrow www.thetimes.com/article/f5b1...

‘Diagnosing a child with autism or ADHD? There’s a lot of money to be made’

By medicalising normal behaviour we’re damaging the young’s wellbeing, Dr Sami Timimi tells Anna Maxted

www.thetimes.com

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Mar 15

'As soon as one theory is discredited, the advocates of the biological paradigm turn to another, putting forward a new set of ropey, inconclusive and ambiguous studies as putative evidence' (from Chemically Imbalanced). Article by Bruce Levine www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/do-c...

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Psychiatry has offered many biological theories, but the ones that stick are the effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Mar 2

Excellent article by neurologist Suzanne Sullivan on our medicalising culture and how escalating diagnosis (depression, ADHD, autism) is harmful and preventing recovery. 'We are becoming victims of too much medicine and it is time to turn back the dial.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness?

Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

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Professor John Read @profjohnread.bsky.social · Feb 21

Please read this and support Jess.
Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. open.substack.com/pub/whatwoul...

Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out.

Dr Jess exposes five years of the shocking tactics and targeting caused by questioning psychiatry and psychology.

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Feb 14

By John Cromby. The chemical imbalance story 'has persuaded some people to imagine that they have faulty brains, rather than awful lives..It has provided politicians with a smokescreen that helps conceal the toxic effects of capitalism.' www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

What if being miserable isn’t an illness? - Mad in the UK

John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

www.madintheuk.com

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James Davies PhD @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · Feb 10

This is a brilliant peice on how the pro-diagnosis & pro-psychiatry left, are letting the left down more broadly: "When [left-wing] activists talk uncritically about depression, they breathe life into a construct thoroughly shaped by capitalist imperatives.'
www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

What if being miserable isn’t an illness? - Mad in the UK

John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

www.madintheuk.com

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James Moore @jfmoore.bsky.social · Feb 5

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions in this #podcast.

“The World Health Organization has twice issued documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model that recognizes social determinants of health."

www.madinamerica.com/2023/12/robe...

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners.

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Feb 4

'dishonesty about the serotonin imbalance theory of depression has resulted in.. a distorted view of the nature of our humanity that not only has had major negative treatment consequences but harmful cultural and political consequences as well' www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

www.counterpunch.org

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Feb 4

Those who defend the neurobiological view of depression invert 'the most basic precepts of science. An idea or theory is unproven until it is proven, not the other way round' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais Aftab

Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Feb 4

My response to @awaisaftab.bsky.social. The essence of his and others' challenge to our serotonin paper is 'depression might be associated with specific brain processes, including those involving serotonin. And because it might be, we should assume it is.' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais Aftab

Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

joannamoncrieff.com

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Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social · Jan 30

'In Chemically Imbalanced, Moncrieff thoroughly answers the question of whether it has been a good or bad thing to convince people to believe that their depression was a biological-chemical event' Review by Bruce Levine www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

www.counterpunch.org

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James Davies PhD @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · Jan 28

How Big Pharma monetised depression.

40 years of the disease model...has left us sicker & unhappier than ever before. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will fix our problems, & plenty...to think it will continue to make them worse.
unherd.com/2022/10/the-...

How Big Pharma monetised depression

America has been sold a lucrative myth

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James Davies PhD @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · Jan 28

Happy to be quoted in today’s Times on the current mental health crisis: “It’s not about taking away support, it’s about offering the right kind of support”.

www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

Crisis? What crisis? The depression epidemic may be all in the mind

Does rising mental health awareness make well people think they require treatment, asks Helen Rumbelow

www.thetimes.com

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