Peter Kinderman

Starting in just under an hour, so if you want to join @peterkinderman.bsky.social & @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social there’s still time to sign up.. #AD4E #DropTheDisorder

An Audience with an Ally - Prof Peter Kinderman Activist, author, academic & former president of the British Psychological Society, Peter Kinderman joins us to talk about his life & work.

Join @jowatson-ad4e.bsky.social & @peterkinderman.bsky.social for an audience with an ally Tuesday 3rd June

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Best Psychiatry Podcasts [2025] Top 21 Shows - Goodpods Discover the top 21 Psychiatry podcasts in 2025. Listen, review and see what Psychiatry podcasts your friends are listening to. | Listen on Goodpods

Delighted to see that the @mad-in-america.bsky.social Rethinking Mental Health #podcast is number 1 in Goodpods #Psychiatry all time chart.

Give us a listen if you get the chance 🎧 goodpods.com/leaderboard/...

How do we talk about overdiagnosis of mental health conditions without dismissing people’s suffering? On 16 March the health and social care secretary, Wes Streeting, made headlines by declaring in an interview that there was an “overdiagnosis” of mental health conditions. The comment was made in the ...

Article in the BMJ recommending ‘conceptual alternatives to diagnosis’ such as the #PTMFramework. Via @profrobhoward.bsky.social

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Are mental health conditions overdiagnosed in the UK? Two experts go head to head Experts challenge Streeting’s claim about ‘over-diagnosis’, and bring some nuance to the debate.

Mental health conditions are over diagnosed theconversation.com/are-mental-h...

‘Diagnosing a child with autism or ADHD? There’s a lot of money to be made’ By medicalising normal behaviour we’re damaging the young’s wellbeing, Dr Sami Timimi tells Anna Maxted

He isn't disputing that their suffering is real 'It's our
response that's the issue. We routinely
pathologise, label and medicate kids' emotions and behaviours'. New book by Sami Timimi out tomorrow www.thetimes.com/article/f5b1...

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”? Psychiatry has offered many biological theories, but the ones that stick are the effective marketing devices for money-making drugs.

'As soon as one theory is discredited, the advocates of the biological paradigm turn to another, putting forward a new set of ropey, inconclusive and ambiguous studies as putative evidence' (from Chemically Imbalanced). Article by Bruce Levine www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/do-c...

The number of people with chronic conditions is soaring. Are we less healthy than we used to be – or overdiagnosing illness? Are ordinary life experiences, bodily imperfections and normal differences being unnecessarily pathologised? One doctor argues just that

Excellent article by neurologist Suzanne Sullivan on our medicalising culture and how escalating diagnosis (depression, ADHD, autism) is harmful and preventing recovery. 'We are becoming victims of too much medicine and it is time to turn back the dial.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. Dr Jess exposes five years of the shocking tactics and targeting caused by questioning psychiatry and psychology.

Please read this and support Jess.
Today marks five years of being targeted for being trauma-informed. This is the true cost of speaking out. open.substack.com/pub/whatwoul...

What if being miserable isn’t an illness? - Mad in the UK John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

By John Cromby. The chemical imbalance story 'has persuaded some people to imagine that they have faulty brains, rather than awful lives..It has provided politicians with a smokescreen that helps conceal the toxic effects of capitalism.' www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

What if being miserable isn’t an illness? - Mad in the UK John Cromby discusses alternative perspectives to the psychiatric reification of ‘depression’ which medicalises distress

This is a brilliant peice on how the pro-diagnosis & pro-psychiatry left, are letting the left down more broadly: "When [left-wing] activists talk uncritically about depression, they breathe life into a construct thoroughly shaped by capitalist imperatives.'
www.madintheuk.com/2025/02/what...

Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners.

Robert Whitaker answers reader questions in this #podcast.

“The World Health Organization has twice issued documents saying we need a radical change away from the disease model and towards a human rights model that recognizes social determinants of health."

www.madinamerica.com/2023/12/robe...

Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais Aftab Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

My response to @awaisaftab.bsky.social. The essence of his and others' challenge to our serotonin paper is 'depression might be associated with specific brain processes, including those involving serotonin. And because it might be, we should assume it is.' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

'dishonesty about the serotonin imbalance theory of depression has resulted in.. a distorted view of the nature of our humanity that not only has had major negative treatment consequences but harmful cultural and political consequences as well' www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

Wishful thinking dressed up in scientific terminology: a reply to Awais Aftab Awais Aftab’s blog about the Sunday Times article on my new book, Chemically Imbalanced, was predictable. Like previous reactions to our serotonin paper, it illustrates how elements of the psychiat…

Those who defend the neurobiological view of depression invert 'the most basic precepts of science. An idea or theory is unproven until it is proven, not the other way round' joannamoncrieff.com/2025/02/03/w...

New Book by Courageous Psychiatrist about Her Profession’s Most Damaging Falsehood While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

'In Chemically Imbalanced, Moncrieff thoroughly answers the question of whether it has been a good or bad thing to convince people to believe that their depression was a biological-chemical event' Review by Bruce Levine www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/30/n...

How Big Pharma monetised depression America has been sold a lucrative myth

How Big Pharma monetised depression.

40 years of the disease model...has left us sicker & unhappier than ever before. There's little reason to believe that more of the same will fix our problems, & plenty...to think it will continue to make them worse.
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Crisis? What crisis? The depression epidemic may be all in the mind Does rising mental health awareness make well people think they require treatment, asks Helen Rumbelow

Happy to be quoted in today’s Times on the current mental health crisis: “It’s not about taking away support, it’s about offering the right kind of support”.

www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

🧵Both the far left & far right misunderstand the fiscal crisis surrounding mental health disability. The far left advocates for more of the over-medicalising same (pushing for increased funding to support ever-escalating disability claims) which in the current climate is fiscally unsustainable...1/4

Do antidepressants work? This British professor says they don’t Joanna Moncrieff is a professor and NHS psychiatrist who dared to argue that depression is not a physical illness. As a result she has been abused by peers — and championed by Tucker Carlson. Is her t...

Thanks to the Sunday Times and @julsmith.bsky.social for covering my upcoming book, highlighting how antidepressants may well do more harm than good and why the medical establishment has been so reluctant to consider this possibility www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

When you were given antidepressants to correct your serotonin levels in your brain did anyone do any measurements before you started taking them?

Did anyone measure afterwards to see if they’d returned to within normal range?

Chemically Imbalanced is out next week! In it, I explore the media reaction to our serotonin review, including how it reflected a new political alignment around mental health issues lnk.to/chemicallyim...

The Troubling Legacy of James Coyne Psychology's infamous bully

"Coyne’s blogs were verbose and erratic, often veering into personal attacks. He freely fabricated conspiracies and leveled baseless accusations that obscured whatever legitimate critiques he might have had."

Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’. As an autistic man, I’m disgusted Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions

"Boris Johnson says he is ‘spectrum-y’ sometimes. Johnson is just the latest male member of the elite to try to use autism as an excuse for his actions."
www.independent.co.uk/voices/boris...

Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach - Translational Psychiatry Translational Psychiatry - Examining overlap and homogeneity in ASD, ADHD, and OCD: a data-driven, diagnosis-agnostic approach

Diagnostic categories in mental health do not distinguish people or brains "Our results did not support the validity of existing diagnostic labels of ASD, ADHD, and OCD as distinct entities with respect to phenotype and cortical morphology." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The problem is, whether we like it or not, we can't really choose our treatments. There are different tariffs for different diagnoses/treatments, so you get what you're given depending on what's thought to be wrong with you.
See my paper The Tour de NICE, midpsy.uk/publications

Mad in the UK Fundamentally re-thinking UK mental health practice and promoting positive change. Blogs. News. Artwork. Podcasts. Part of the Mad in America family.

Here’s the madintheuk site .. we’ll post recently published blogs as well as old favourites here!

www.madintheuk.com

An open letter to the BBC Dr Russell Jackson, senior lecturer in communication and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University, writes to the BBC about Question Time

With Nigel Farage back on Question Time and with around 300,000 reads in over 144 countries but still with no response from Question Time

Here's @docrussjackson.bsky.social's open letter to the BBC about widely held concerns about why bias on #bbcqt is not going away
@yorksbylines.bsky.social

How neurodivergence became a subculture In recent years, social media has allowed neurodivergent people to find community online – but is there a darker side to the ‘subculturalification’ of mental health conditions?

Capitalism is using neurodivergence "to dismantle subcultural rebellion by labelling 'deviant' behaviour to make it acceptable enough to be integrated into the mainstream". Is neurodivergent activism truly radical or surreptitiously enabling the status quo?
www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

Warning over the cocktail of prescribed drugs taken by Thomas Kingston Lady Gabriella Windsor's husband Thomas Windsor, 45, had suffered an adverse reaction to prescribed medication, an inquest heard.

@dailymail.co.uk cover the potential role of antidepressants in tragedies like this and the need for people to be warned www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...