Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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Modern Moral Panics
It seems that wherever we turn, we find yet another "campaign" to promote some mental quirk or other to the level of an impending catastrophe. This…
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The Depression Industry.
A depressing tale.
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Here come the political scientists.
Cracks in psychiatry's walls.
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New diseases for old drugs.
The drug industry adapts to changing circumstances.
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And Now For ... More of The Same.
More on psychotomimetics
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April 2023
Military psychiatry and militarism.
Today, April 25th, is Anzac Day, which commemorates the disastrous landing of Australian, New Zealand and British troops on the Galipoli Peninsula, in…
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The ADHD juggernaut rolls on...
...and why science matters.
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Looking into ADHD.
This impression of scientific certitude in the midst of substantial and potentially crippling problems is a tribute to the ability of psychologists and…
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A visitor...
As a break from all the gloom, in April 2020, just as the covid lockdowns were biting, we had a visitor, who is still here. One night, I went out to…
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Keeping Psychiatry's secrets from the UN
On January 17th this year, I mentioned that the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or…
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March 2023
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