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    James Barnes
    • Dec 4, 2020

    Are critics of psychiatry stranded in a ‘Jurassic world?’ — Mad in the UK

    In a recent Psychiatric Times interview with Lucy Johnstone,1 the interviewer took the very unusual step of seeking ‘clarification’ from...
    James Barnes
    • Dec 3, 2020

    For Donald Winnicott, the psyche is not inside us but between us — Aeon magazine

    Originally a British paediatrician by trade, Donald Winnicott (1896-1971) became a central figure in mid-20th-century psychoanalysis....
    James Barnes
    • Dec 2, 2020

    The Problems with the DSM Mask a Dark Reality We’re All Complicit In — Mad in America

    The reductive, materialist approach to ‘mental disorder’ is running on fumes. The idea that disorders are simple, empirical things,...
    James Barnes
    • Dec 1, 2020

    How the dualism of Descartes ruined our mental health — Aeon magazine

    Toward the end of the Renaissance period, a radical epistemological and metaphysical shift overcame the Western psyche. The advances of...
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