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Our guests today are:
Joanna Moncrieff:
She is a practicing psychiatrist and a part-time academic and author. Her work is focused on the use, misuse and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs. For 10 years Joanna was a consultant for a psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit, helping people with severe and long-lasting mental health problems. For the last 3 years Joanna has been based in various community mental health services in North East London. She teaches and does research at the University College London.
Joanna is one of the founding members and the co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which consists of a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry.
joannamoncrieff.com/about
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Moncrieff
Lucy Johnstone:
She is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical model of psychiatry. Lucy has authored a number of books, articles and chapters on topics such as psychiatric diagnosis, formulation, the psychological effects of ECT, and the role of trauma in breakdown.
She is currently convening a group of leading UK clinical psychologists and mental health experts who are working to develop an evidence-based and conceptually coherent alternative to the current diagnostic systems.
adisorder4everyone.com/bio/lucy-johnstone
Useful links:
The Power Threat Meaning Framework website: bps.org.uk/power-threat-meaning-framework
A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-the-power-threat-meaning-framework-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis
A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis: pccs-books.co.uk/products/sti-diagnosis
A disorder for everyone! adisorder4everyone.com
Mad in the UK madintheuk.com
joannamoncrieff.com
pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-psychiatric-drugs-second-edition
amazon.co.uk/Bitterest-Pills-Troubling-Story-Antipsychotic/dp/1137277432
amazon.co.uk/Myth-Chemical-Cure-Psychiatric-Treatment/dp/0230574327/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=myth+chemical&qid=1611829778&s=books&sr=1-1
Our guests today are:
Joanna Moncrieff:
She is a practicing psychiatrist and a part-time academic and author. Her work is focused on the use, misuse and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs. For 10 years Joanna was a consultant for a psychiatric rehabilitation inpatient unit, helping people with severe and long-lasting mental health problems. For the last 3 years Joanna has been based in various community mental health services in North East London. She teaches and does research at the University College London.
Joanna is one of the founding members and the co-chair person of the Critical Psychiatry Network, which consists of a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders are simply brain diseases and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry.
joannamoncrieff.com/about
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Moncrieff
Lucy Johnstone:
She is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of the biomedical model of psychiatry. Lucy has authored a number of books, articles and chapters on topics such as psychiatric diagnosis, formulation, the psychological effects of ECT, and the role of trauma in breakdown.
She is currently convening a group of leading UK clinical psychologists and mental health experts who are working to develop an evidence-based and conceptually coherent alternative to the current diagnostic systems.
adisorder4everyone.com/bio/lucy-johnstone
Useful links:
The Power Threat Meaning Framework website: bps.org.uk/power-threat-meaning-framework
A straight talking introduction to the Power Threat Meaning Framework: pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-the-power-threat-meaning-framework-an-alternative-to-psychiatric-diagnosis
A straight talking introduction to psychiatric diagnosis: pccs-books.co.uk/products/sti-diagnosis
A disorder for everyone! adisorder4everyone.com
Mad in the UK madintheuk.com
joannamoncrieff.com
pccs-books.co.uk/products/a-straight-talking-introduction-to-psychiatric-drugs-second-edition
amazon.co.uk/Bitterest-Pills-Troubling-Story-Antipsychotic/dp/1137277432
amazon.co.uk/Myth-Chemical-Cure-Psychiatric-Treatment/dp/0230574327/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=myth+chemical&qid=1611829778&s=books&sr=1-1
