From the monthly archives:

January 2006

Treating Madness With Drugs

23 January 2006

In a previous post I explained that current categorisations of mental illness find it hard to predict the course of the illness. Here I move onto the conventional pharmaceutical treatments [...]

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Utility of Categorising Mental Illness

20 January 2006

In a previous post I described how current methods of categorising mental health problems are not particularly reliable or valid. As Kendell and Jablensky (2003) point out, the lack of [...]

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Classifying Madness: Criticisms and Alternatives

17 January 2006

Over the years, Vincent van Gogh's mental illness has been classified in 30 different ways by over 150 different physicians, not just those who originally treated him. It is becoming [...]

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Benefits of Informal Psychological Helping

9 January 2006

Recently I wrote about the difficulties of evaluating mental health phone lines. Following on from this I've been taking a look at research into how the training of therapists affects [...]

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Does Cannabis Cause Psychosis?

8 January 2006

An excellent balanced report in The Independent: "First, there has been no increase in schizophrenia in this country despite a massive increase in cannabis smoking. Second, there is no evidence [...]

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Do Helplines Help?

1 January 2006

It has been estimated that 5% of the UK population are active users of mental health helplines. Mental health helplines are close to my heart as I volunteer for one [...]

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