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Ken McLaughlin
Our brains aren’t
moulded by abuse
So, is mental distress caused by faulty genes or by past experiences of childhood abuse? Maybe it’s neither.
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| Thursday 3 January 2013 |
Tim Black
Underestimating the resilience of youth
Officials obsessively focus on helping young people cope with unemployment, rather than overcome it.
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| Monday 29 October 2012 |
Tim Black
Why Miliband wants to mess with our minds
Bereft of political vision and with no ideas for how to remake Britain, the Labour leader wants to boost our mental health instead.
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| Friday 21 September 2012 |
Peter Sedgwick
Revealing the truth about psychopolitics
Following the death of Thomas Szasz, we republish an extract from Peter Sedgwick’s critique of anti-psychiatry’s leading light.
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| Tuesday 10 July 2012 |
Tim Black
Blaming Big Pharma for society’s ills
GlaxoSmithKline may have deserved its $3 billion fine, but it doesn’t deserve the blame for therapy culture.
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| Thursday 9 February 2012 |
Luke Gittos
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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