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‘Is mental illness real?’ Jay Watts

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/is-mental-illness-real-google-answer?CMP=share_btn_tw Click on the above link for this interesting and important piece in the Guardian’s ‘Comment is free’ section, showing how these perceptions are gradually making it into the mainstream media…which is encouraging. For the writer, Jay still speaks in … Continue reading →

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‘ADHD: A Destructive and Disempowering Label; Not an Illness’ Philip Hickey

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2015/07/adhd-a-destructive-and-disempowering-label-not-an-illness/ ‘Psychiatry has created and promoted the self-serving fiction that childhood distractibility/impulsivity and various other human problems are illnesses that need to be “treated” with neurotoxic chemicals and other brain-damaging interventions. Suggesting at this very late stage in the proceedings … Continue reading →

Posted in child development, civil rights, compulsive behaviour, consent, cultural questions, diagnoses of ADHD, Disconnection, diversity, DSM, emotions, ethics, external locus, growing up, Mad in America, medical model, non-conforming, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence | Tagged ADHD, ADHD myth, anti-psychiatry, antipsychiatry, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Behaviorism and Mental Health, Big Pharma, biomarkers in psychiatry, bureaucratisation of the spirit, challenging DSM, chemical imbalance myth, chemical imbalance theory of depression, child psychiatry, compliance, Concerta, conforming, disease and disorder model, DSM, DSM validity, Erving Goffman, Geography of Childhood, Ilina Singh, Institute of Psychiatry, Mad in America, medicalising childhood, medicalising distress, medicalizing childhood, medicalizing distress, methylphenidate, myth of normal, non-conforming, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, pathologising behaviour, pathologizing behaviour, Philip Hickey, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric drug research, psychiatric drugs in children, psychiatric misdiagnosis, psychiatric model, psychiatric research, psychosocial model, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Simon Wessely, social norms, Steven Trimble | 1 Comment

The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://cepuk.org/ Follow the link to the website for CEP. In the writer’s view, anyone working in the therapeutic/allied world has an ethical responsibility to be aware of, and evaluate, these arguments. CEP has some seriously intelligent, aware and informed people … Continue reading →

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Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin – Kelly Brogan

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/depression-serotonin/ Click on the link for this useful article – and thanks to Mad in America, and Monica Cassani at http://www.beyondmeds.com for steering us to this. The writer does not herself any more use or find useful the language of … Continue reading →

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