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The Hype for Psychedelic Drugs Relies on Unblinding Unblinding irrevocably blemishes psychedelic research, according to three new studies and an editorial in JAMA Psychiatry.

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Changing how mental health and illness are understood Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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Changing how mental health and illness are understood Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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We are all neurodiverse Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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We are all neurodiverse Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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sami timimi on X: "There is no over or under diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, just a confused cacophony of opinions https://t.co/TluvNShD1Y" / X There is no over or under diagnosis of ADHD or Autism, just a confused cacophony of opinions https://t.co/TluvNShD1Y

“[W]e are all neurodiverse, making the concept, and its sub-categories (like ADHD and autism), painfully useless at differentiating and classifying different types of people.” x.com/stimimi/stat...

Institutional pressures in psychiatry Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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Institutional pressures in psychiatry Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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Duncan Double (@dbdouble) Unrealistic expectation of risk prediction by mental health services https://criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2024/01/unrealistic-expectation-of-risk.html

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‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good

[As a GP,] I’m encountering more people these days with the conviction that the labels we give mental suffering have a fixed reality, that they are based on hard neurological evidence, and that they therefore confer some kind of fate.
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Where is DSM going? Psychiatric diagnosis is controversial.

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Radical with Amol Rajan - Social Media Bans: Are We at a Global Turning Point? (Jonathan Haidt) - BBC Sounds Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, on how to go smartphone free.

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Where is DSM going? Psychiatric diagnosis is controversial.

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Conceptual understanding of psychiatric diagnosis Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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Whither DSM-6? Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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Whither DSM-6? Blog encouraging critical debate about psychiatry

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The Dangers of Pseudoneuroscience and the Power of Influencers A psychiatrist and neuroscientist examines how misleading brain claims shape public understanding of mental health.

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Academic critical/relational psychiatry As I said in my first post on Substack, I’ve joined Substack in case it may have more academic clout that Blogger.

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Duncan Double on X: "US officially leaves World Health Organization - BBC News https://t.co/6BBRbdgiyx" / X US officially leaves World Health Organization - BBC News https://t.co/6BBRbdgiyx

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Thinking differently about mental health I have been blogging at Thinking Differently about Mental Health since 2009.

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Why Are So Many Americans Turning to Bots for Therapy? A broken mental-health system is pushing people toward tools never meant for clinical care. Now safer, bespoke A.I. models are emerging.

“It is plausible—indeed likely—that within a few years a substantial share of people seeking therapy will begin with a chatbot rather than a human clinician”
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Duncan Double | Substack Retired consultant psychiatrist. Founding member of Critical Psychiatry Network.

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Duncan Double | Substack Retired consultant psychiatrist. Founding member of Critical Psychiatry Network.

Duncan Double is now on Substack substack.com/@dbdouble?r=...

Lucy Letby will face no new charges, says Crown Prosecution Service Ex-nurse, who is serving 15 whole-life prison terms, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more

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