Khameer Kidia argues for a shift in the field from the reductively biological to the expansively social and political ...

Psychiatry got its name as a medical specialty in the early 1800s. For the first century of its existence, the field concerned itself with severely disordered individuals confined to asylums or ...

Critical psychiatry should continue to point out where mainstream psychiatry falls short, but mainstream psychiatry must ...

Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . CTE pathology moderated the association between family history of mental illness and aggression. The largest ...

The Warneford Hospital is holding a year-long programme of events to mark its bicentenary.

The American Psychiatric Association has announced big upcoming changes to psychiatry’s big book of mental disorders, the DSM ...

The Madhouse, by Francisco de Goya. Source: Wikicommons Our understanding of mental illness has changed dramatically in recent times and is continuing to evolve. A look at the past can cast equal ...