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Luke Samuel
A perverted ruling that degrades us all
A bizarre court order banning an autistic woman from having sex dehumanises people with learning difficulties.
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| Thursday 2 February 2012 |
Para Mullan
Turning workplace worries into maladies
New guidelines suggesting bosses watch out for mental-health problems end up medicalising normal emotions.
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| Thursday 8 September 2011 |
Tim Black
Are you shy? Then you
have a mental disorder
The mad claim that 165million Europeans suffer from ‘mental illness’ confirms that normal emotional states are now seen as diseases.
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| Monday 13 June 2011 |
Ken McLaughlin
The unhelpful myth that we’re all a bit mad
The notion that everyone is in some way mentally ill distracts attention from those who really need help.
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| Thursday 3 February 2011 |
Ken McLaughlin
There is no epidemic of childhood mental illness
The UK government’s new strategy for mental health is a patronising waste of money based on dodgy statistics.
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| Tuesday 18 January 2011 |
Ken McLaughlin
The therapist’s couch has replaced the pulpit
A new report on women’s mental health shows that religious groups now talk more about psychology than sinning.
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| Thursday 29 July 2010 |
Tim Black
Why more and more people feel ‘mentally ill’
Yes, the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM is mad, labelling even shyness a disorder. But it didn’t create today’s therapy culture.
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| Tuesday 28 July 2009 |
Ken McLaughlin
The ever-expanding world of mental illness
Redefining everyday problems and personality quirks as psychiatric problems is bad news for us all - and democracy.
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| Monday 18 May 2009 |
Ken McLaughlin
The workplace is not a playground
The way the term ‘bullying’ has spread from schools to workplaces exposes today’s low view of workers.
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| Tuesday 3 February 2009 |
Ken McLaughlin
Treating life itself as a mental illness
The latest celebrity-fronted awareness campaign conflates everyday emotional turmoil with serious mental ill-health.
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| Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
Ken McLaughlin
Turning growing up into going mad
A new campaign to tackle ‘ignorance’ about mental health issues among the young pathologises being a teenager.
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| Thursday 22 May 2008 |
Ken McLaughlin
A cruel and unusual ban
The smoking ban in psychiatric institutions means their patients are the only people in Britain forbidden from smoking ‘in their own homes’.
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| Monday 19 May 2008 |
Ken McLaughlin
Blurring the line between ‘normal’ and ‘disabled’
A charity despairs at public ignorance about people with learning problems. Yet it’s the constant redefinition of disability that sows confusion.
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| Thursday 27 March 2008 |
Brendan O’Neill
This war against anger makes me see red
The powers-that-be promote happiness and demonise anger because they prefer us to be little lambs rather than assertive firebrands.
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| Wednesday 10 October 2007 |
Kevin Yuill
The (in)capacity to trust
The Mental Capacity Act replaces the freedom of doctors and carers to decide what's best for a patient with the clunking fist of legal decision-making.
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| Tuesday 3 April 2007 |
Ken McLaughlin
Multiculturalism: bad for your mental health?
Today's emphasis on 'cultural difference' is one reason why black people get unequal treatment in the mental health sphere.
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| Monday 26 February 2007 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Oliver James' new book: it could f*** you up
In Affluenza, the clinical psychologist argues that money is driving us insane. In fact, he's the one who seems a few cents short of a dollar.
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| Thursday 22 February 2007 |
Ken McLaughlin
Lighten up, and let the patients light up
Banning smoking in psychiatric institutions - where patients can't just step outside for a fag - is madness.
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| Wednesday 6 December 2006 |
Ken McLaughlin
Scare in the community
Alarming-sounding reports on homicides by mental patients are being used by the UK government to justify draconian new laws.
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| Thursday 19 October 2006 |
Emily Hill
Politics as therapy
You don't have to be mad to work for New Labour, but it helps.
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