Tag: duncan double
Founding Member Looks Back on 20 Years of the Critical Psychiatry...
Founding member of the Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN), psychiatrist Duncan B. Double, reviews the past 20 years of the Critical Psychiatry Network in an editorial published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
Differences Within Critical Psychiatry
In this blog post for Critical Psychiatry, Duncan Double highlights three main areas of disagreement among critical psychiatrists: whether psychiatry should be seen as a medical...
Is Schizophrenia Associated with Brain Volume Changes Independently of Medication?
Duncan Double, on his Critical Psychiatry blog, published a series of posts exploring the effects of antipsychotics on brain volume and the contention that...
Critical Psychiatry: âStop Psychiatric Abuseâ
On his Critical Psychiatry blog, Duncan Double offers his response to Peter Gøtzscheâs and Peter Bregginâs latest blogs on forced treatment. âThey want to...
âPsychotherapy is a Biological Treatment?â
A BJPsych editorial this month argues that the target of psychotherapy, like pharmacotherapy, is diseased neural functioning. On his Critical Psychiatry blog, Duncan Double disagrees. âTo suggest...
Critical Psychiatry: Importance of Interviewing
For the Critical Psychiatry blog, Duncan Double writes that psychological formulation and psychosocial assessment may provide a way forward to a ânew psychiatryâ that moves on from modern concepts of mental illness as chemical imbalance or some other abnormality of the brain.
