Towards a more relational psychiatry: a critical reflection cambridge.org/core/services/…

Thinking differently about mental health: Psychiatry must be clear that most mental illness is not due to brain abnormality criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…

Obituary Aggrey Burke cambridge.org/core/services/…

Yes I think some people seem to collapse psychological effects into ‘nothing is wrong with you - it’s all in your head’ but as you say beliefs are very powerful indeed and that causes real effects even if they don’t arise physically.

The end of an era for New Zealand as Kane Williamson announces his retirement🖤 The former Black Caps captain will play no further part in the Test series against England.

Thinking differently about mental health: Will the Nottingham inquiry help improve mental health services? criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…?

Call for Abstracts Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry 38th Annual Meeting mailchi.mp/fd9014df4a9c/call…

Dan Lawrence departs for a MAGNIFICENT 101 off 64 balls - 7️⃣ x 4s, 5️⃣ x 6s 😮‍💨 Lawrence is now the only batter other than Graham Hick to score a 200 and a 100 in the same first-class match at more than a-run-a-ball 🤯 What an entertainer. 🤎 | #CountyChampionship

The Lord's pitch for the first Test between England and New Zealand has been rated as "unsatisfactory" by the ICC, with the historic venue also given one demerit point.

My son has schizophrenia. Why can't the system cope? theguardian.com/society/2006… Guardian article from nearly 20 years ago still relevant now.

Mental health services are still facing similar problems as far as mental health homicide is concerned to the time before Community Treatment Orders were first introduced

On how critical psychiatry has failed to change the brain-bias of mainstream psychiatry. Despite the supposed biopsychosocial approach, 'The message patients tend to hear.. is that a psychiatric diagnosis means there is something wrong with their brain'

Thinking differently about mental health: Has critical psychiatry failed? criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…

Special innings from a special cricketer! 🫶 🤎 | #CountyChampionship

Ollie Robinson gets his name on the Lord’s honours board for the first time, while Gus Atkinson makes his third appearance ✍️ Those figures from Gus in 2024 are still ridiculous 😅

Swap the Lord's Test match for the County Championship at the Kia Oval 🚨 All England vs New Zealand Day Four ticket holders of the now-complete match at Lord's can enjoy £5 tickets to the rest of the first day of Surrey's ongoing @CountyChamp match with Hampshire at the Kia Oval. 😲 🤎 | #CountyChampionship

I wouldn’t describe critical psychiatry as having failed. It seems to me that the CPN has largely succeeded in doing what it set out to do: keeping alive the question of whether mental illness is best understood as a disorder of the brain and challenging the assumption that physicalist explanations should automatically take precedence. The search for biological explanations will no doubt continue, as many regard that as an important endeavour. But perhaps the continuing contribution of critical psychiatry is to ensure that the debate remains open and that psychosocial, relational and meaning-based explanations are taken more seriously rather than treated as secondary to biological ones by default. In a field where there is a constant temptation to declare the argument settled, keeping the question open is important in itself.

The death has been announced of Marius Romme who laid the foundation for the Hearing Voices Movement with Sandra Escher.