Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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Psychiatry’s addiction.
A paper published a few weeks ago in the journal Molecular Psychiatry [1] has stirred up the debate on whether abruptly stopping antidepressants causes…
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Personality through a positivist lens
Spoiler: it’s invisible.
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Goodbye, critical psychiatry
It was fun while it lasted.
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This Week’s Crisis in Mental Health
Crisis (n): a time of intense difficulty; a point at which major decisions must be made in order to avert serious risk or danger
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September 2024

Deprescribing
For a change.
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Just Psychopaths
They're everywhere.
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The War Against Personality Disorder
For years, I’ve been saying that mainstream psychiatry is engaged in a long-term project of re-diagnosing personality disorders, which psychiatry can’t…
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A busy week for critical psychiatry.
Another week, another couple of books criticising psychiatry.
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August 2024

The dire state of psychotherapy.
A year after Australia took the very bold step of approving psychotomimetic drugs (drugs that mimic psychosis, known in polite circles as…
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Royal Free Disease 2.0.
(This post may be too long for email; if it’s chopped short, go to my Substack site)
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To Drug or not to Drug?
Balancing “5 Myths about Antidepressants.”
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When Speaking is not Communicating.
One of the most distinctive features of humans is our ability to communicate by symbols, collectively known as language.
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