If you think expanding the mental health sector is the way to remedy growing societial suffering, you've drunk the cool aid. The expansion of that sector (its ideology & interventions) only worsens the problem. The solution is the right kind of social, economic & political change.

I delivered a presentation yesterday in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, on the over-prescribing of antidepressants. Here is one of my slides👇

Maria A Oquendo, the new Chair of DSM-6 (yes it's coming) has received unrestricted educational grants and/or lecture fees form AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Janssen, Otsuka, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis, and Shire. She receives royalties from the commercial use of....

The American Psychiatric Association’s (2025) annual conference, or should we say Pharma Expo 2025? One glance at the conference map & you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a sales convention, not a 'medical' gathering 👇

Great to present at the critical psychiatry conference yesterday at UCL in London. In the q&a I addressed the co-option of critical ideas by government to justify inhumane cuts to disability. Some of my thoughts below 👇

Wealth inequality in the US. Look at the trend....

This map of psych-drug consumption was published in the Lancet Psych, 2021. The authors conclude, in so many words, that we should aim to turn the entire map closer to red, as though such unashamed psychotropic imperialism would enable a better world.... What say you?

The graph below (IFS) measures the proportion of people in the UK unable to afford a number of essential goods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables or the ability to adequately heat their home - i.e. the number of those living in material deprivation.

'For many children, the truest & most effective therapy won’t be found in a pill, a consultancy room or a classroom intervention, but in loving & meaningful human relationships that endeavour to mitigate the harsher social forces & impacts they neither perceive nor understand'. #Sedated

‘Capitalism doesn’t want your inner life to be completely fixed- it is happy for you to be a functional depressive or a functional alcoholic, because in both instances you are still a functional consumer’ #Sedated 👇

Cool to see my book, Sedated, still in Waterstones 🤓👇

The cover for my book, Sedated, for the Korean translation 🤓

Wealthier adults in England are driving a sharp rise in prescriptions for ADHD drugs.