Biopsychological and social models a perspective from critical psychiatry Double DB

Asylum seekers extract P Bracken P Thomas_ Mind

Biomedical Bias Of The American Psychiatric Association Double DB

Justifying a biomedical approach

Redressing The Biochemical Imbalance Double DB

Review of Cultures of Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Postwar Britain and the Netherlands

Reprinted with permission from Openmind 100:10-11 (November/December 1999) © 1999 Mind (National Association for Mental Health) POST-PSYCHIATRY Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas As we head into the last months of the nineteen nineties it is worth reflecting on the achievements of the ‘decade of the brain’. Neuroscience promised to reveal the secrets of the nervous

Reprinted with permission from Openmind 99 (September/October 1999) ©1999 Mind (National Association for Mental Health) POST-PSYCHIATRY Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas Since the caustic critiques of Szasz and Laing in the 1960’s, the concept of schizophrenia has been attacked from a variety of quarters. The psychiatric establishment has defended the diagnosis vigorously, and schizophrenia continues

Reprinted with permission from Openmind © Mind (National Association for Mental Health) POST-PSYCHIATRY Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas Like most other people in the country, we thought we were waking up to a new world on May 2nd 1997. We hoped the new government would bring a fresh approach to the health service, and to

Reprinted with permission from Openmind © Mind (National Association for Mental Health) POST-PSYCHIATRY Pat Bracken and Phil Thomas In our earlier articles we argued that psychiatry has failed to deliver its promises, and that a new debate about the limitations of psychiatry is required. The purpose now is to stimulate discussion about the legitimate sphere