“Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” is now available through the Oxford Medicine Online collection. If you have an academic affiliation, there is a good chance you can access it online through your library!

https://academic.oup.com/book/58220

The Explanatory Value of Descriptive Diagnosis

There is a legitimate sense in which depression can be said to affect how people think, feel, and act

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-explanatory-value-of-descriptive

Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy

What does the DSM say about the unobservable structure of psychopathology?

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/antirealism-will-not-save-the-dsm

Biotypes in Depression and Anxiety — At Long Last, Progress

Celebrating groundbreaking work by Leanne Williams & colleagues

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/biotypes-in-depression-and-anxiety

Making Sense of the Literature on Antipsychotics and Long-Term Functioning

Taking natural history and personalization seriously

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/making-sense-of-the-literature-on

People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/people-are-stumbling-from-one-misguided

The political war on mental health disabilities is a logical outcome of British critical psychiatry

Guest Post by Robert Chapman

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/critical-psychiatry-and-the-political

Mental Causation and Metaphysical Gloss

“Downward causation” is strictly speaking neither “downward” nor “causation.”

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mental-causation-and-metaphysical

Mental Causation

Primes, wheels, and particle colliders

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/mental-causation

Reflections on the Scottish Mental Health Law Review and Hopes for a Less Coercive Future

A Guest Post by Graham Morgan

“It is no wonder we end up sectioned when our lives are close to unlivable.”

https://www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/reflections-on-the-scottish-mental