Peter Kinderman
@peterkinderman.bsky.social
Professor of Clinical Psychology. Socialist. Beekeeper. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
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Starting in just under an hour, so if you want to join @peterkinderman.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social there’s still time to sign up.. #AD4E #DropTheDisorder
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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June 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Starting in just under an hour, so if you want to join @peterkinderman.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social there’s still time to sign up.. #AD4E #DropTheDisorder
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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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May 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June
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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/...
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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April 16, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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/...
Give us a listen if you get the chance 🎧 goodpods.com/leaderboard/...
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Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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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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April 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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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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March 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...
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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...
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
March 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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...
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...
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'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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March 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
'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...
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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
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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...
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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. 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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February 21, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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. open.substack.com/pub/whatwoul...
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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
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February 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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...
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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...
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
February 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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...
www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...
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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...
“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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February 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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...
“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...
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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…
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February 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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...
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'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...
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February 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
'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...
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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…
joannamoncrieff.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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...
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'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...
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January 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
'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...
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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-...
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
unherd.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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-...
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-...
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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...
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
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January 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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...
www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...
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🧵Both the far left & far right misunderstand the fiscal crisis surrounding mental health disability. The far left advocates for more of the over-medicalising same (pushing for increased funding to support ever-escalating disability claims) which in the current climate is fiscally unsustainable...1/4
January 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🧵Both the far left & far right misunderstand the fiscal crisis surrounding mental health disability. The far left advocates for more of the over-medicalising same (pushing for increased funding to support ever-escalating disability claims) which in the current climate is fiscally unsustainable...1/4
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Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t
Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...
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January 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...
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When you were given antidepressants to correct your serotonin levels in your brain did anyone do any measurements before you started taking them?
Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?
Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?
January 7, 2025 at 7:59 AM
When you were given antidepressants to correct your serotonin levels in your brain did anyone do any measurements before you started taking them?
Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?
Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?
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Chemically Imbalanced is out next week! In it, I explore the media reaction to our serotonin review, including how it reflected a new political alignment around mental health issues lnk.to/chemicallyim...
January 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Chemically Imbalanced is out next week! In it, I explore the media reaction to our serotonin review, including how it reflected a new political alignment around mental health issues lnk.to/chemicallyim...
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"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."
The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne
Psychology's infamous bully
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December 12, 2024 at 2:46 PM
"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."
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"Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’ sometimes. Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’. As an autistic man, I’m disgusted
Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2024 at 10:21 AM
"Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’ sometimes. Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...
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Diagnostic categories in mental health do not distinguish people or brains "Our results did not support the validity of existing diagnostic labels of ASD, ADHD, and OCD as distinct entities with respect to phenotype and cortical morphology." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach
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December 10, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Diagnostic categories in mental health do not distinguish people or brains "Our results did not support the validity of existing diagnostic labels of ASD, ADHD, and OCD as distinct entities with respect to phenotype and cortical morphology." www.nature.com/articles/s41...