British psychiatry on the brink
Underfunded and with bad incentive structures, the industry needs rescuing.
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The confessions of Irvin Yalom
In an age of AI bots delivering therapy by algorithm, we risk losing the intrusive intimacy of real psychotherapy.
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Why courts could stop a teenager changing their gender
The wishes of a 16-year-old seeking to transition could be overruled because of concerns that hormone treatment isn’t in their…
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I’m a child psychiatrist – the NHS crisis feels dangerous for those I work with
Long waiting times and cuts to community services have drastically reduced mental health support for young people.
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Joanna Moncrieff: “I’m not convinced antidepressants have any use”
The controversial psychiatrist on taking on the pharmaceutical firms, and how Covid made it “OK to cancel scientists”.
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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The great attention deficit: what’s fuelling the rise in adult ADHD?
No longer confined to “problem children”, ADHD diagnoses are booming – yet it’s a condition that remains widely misunderstood.
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No, you don’t have ADHD
The condition I struggle with has become a badge of victimhood.
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Wounded healers
How clinicians with lived experience of mental illness bring value to the profession
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Is reality a hallucination? The neuroscientist Anil Seth thinks so
After decades of research into the mysteries of consciousness, the British academic has reached a radical conclusion – by way…
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