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...