Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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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?
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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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A forum for critical analysis of society, mind and mental disorder.
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