At the September 2014 meeting the CPN felt that there should be a review of CTOs due to their coercive nature and lack of evidence that they are beneficial. Our proposal has been submitted to the Coalition Mental Health Task Force. CTO_Task Force Task force CTO letter

Statement to All Party Parliamentary Group on the topic of Global Mental Health. Alternative Approaches statement APPG 22-07-2014

The Conference Committee of the RCPsych rejected a proposal for a symposium on antipsychotic medication. The symposium was suggested to discuss recent research findings which suggest that long-term antipsychotic treatment is associated with some important physical and functional disadvantages. Members of the Critical Psychiatry Network wrote to the Conference Committee to seek clarification as it

Reply from IoP

The IoP has invited Charles Nemeroff to give the inaugural lecture at the Centre of Affective Disorders in spite of the fact that he lied to Emroy University, where he was a professor about millions of dollars he received from pharmaceutical companies. The New York Times gives the details. Members of the Critical Psychiatry Network

Charles Nemeroff is giving the inaugural lecture at the Centre of Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry. It’s a controversial choice. Phil Thomas covers the issues in his blog A Soiled Phoenix Rises The issue of conflict of interest is noted by Duncan Double in his blog Stronger conflict of interest policies needed and

CPN statement DSM-5

Currently all psychiatric trainees have to participate in ECT as part of their training and cannot qualify as psychiatrist if they refuse. In the meeting in March 2011 we decided to ask the Royal College of Psychiatrist to consider dropping the obligation for trainees to conduct ECT and sent the following letter to Dinesh Bughra,