As mentioned a few weeks ago, I ordered a newly-published book on detention and involuntary treatment by a Canadian science journalist and author, Ron…
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Like most medical professional bodies, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) publishes research journals, in this case…
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For drug companies, antidepressants are one of the great success stories. Starting in the early 1960s, and especially over the past 30 years, drug…
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February 2023

I've been publishing material for many years now, practically all of it critical of mainstream psychiatry. In the first twenty years or so, my stuff was…
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In about April last year, I thought it would be a good idea to find out how much the Qld Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) costs to run. Why would…
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Substack 23.02.14 (This has been a busy week, with a short paper submitted to one of the Australian journals on the failure of state governments to…
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More on the "biopsychosocial model."
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January 2023

Can psychiatrists justify what they do?
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What does philosophy of science say about psychiatry?
Following last week's article on the visit of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture (SPT) to Australia, which was terminated because of the…
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The concept of a critical psychiatry is part of the movement sometimes known as Critical Analysis, or Critical Thinking. All this says is: Don't take…
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