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Conversations in Critical Psychiatry

“Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” is my interview series for Psychiatric Times that explores critical and philosophical perspectives in psychiatry and engages with prominent commentators within and outside the profession who have made meaningful criticisms of the status quo.

A book adaptation of selected interviews with new material is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

The list below is in the order of the original online publication (abridged version of some interviews were published in the print edition).

1) Conversations in Critical Psychiatry: Allen Frances, MD

2) The Structure of Psychiatric Revolutions: Anne Harrington, DPhil
(published in print with the title 'The Many Histories of Biological Psychiatry')

3) Skepticism of the Gentle Variety: Derek Bolton, PhD

4) Explanatory Methods in Psychiatry: The Importance of Perspectives: Paul R. McHugh, MD

5) Chaos Theory With a Human Face: Niall McLaren, MBBS, FRANZCP


6) The Rise and Fall of Pragmatism in Psychiatry: S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH

7) Integrating Academic Inquiry and Reformist Activism in Psychiatry: Sandra Steingard, MD & G. Scott Waterman, MD

8) Social Constructionism Meets Aging and Dementia: Peter Whitehouse, MD, PhD

9) 50 Shades of Misdiagnosis: Susannah Cahalan

10) Institutional Corruption and Social Justice in Psychiatry: Lisa Cosgrove, PhD

11) The Impoverishment of Psychiatric Knowledge: Giovanni Fava, MD

12) Psychiatry and the Human Condition: Joanna Moncrieff, MD

13) Psychiatric Disorders as an Imperfect Community: Peter Zachar, PhD

14) Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work in Psychiatry: Kenneth S. Kendler, MD

15) The Battle for the Soul of Psychiatry: Ronald W. Pies, MD

16) Psychoanalysis and the Re-Enchantment of Psychiatry: Jonathan Shedler, PhD
 
17) Moving Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lucy Johnstone, PsyD 
 
18) The Medical Model in Theory and Practice: Ahmed Samei Huda, MBChb, MSC
 
19) Phenomenology, Power, Polarization, and the Discourse on Psychosis: Nev Jones, PhD
 
20) Sense-Making and the Enactive Turn in Psychiatry: Sanneke de Haan, PhD
 
21) 3E Approach to Psychopathology: Kristopher Nielsen, PhD
 
22) The Bureaucratic Takeover of American Psychiatry: George Dawson, MD, DFAPA
 
23) Integration, Common Principles, and the Future of Psychotherapy: Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD 
 
24) There and Back Again: Joseph Pierre, MD
 
25) A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD
 
26) Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD
 
27) Reconsidering Care and Coercion in Psychiatry: Kathleen Flaherty, JD
 
28) Psychiatry and the Long View: Paul Summergrad, MD 
 
29) Global Psychiatry’s Crisis of Values: Dainius Pūras, MD
 
30) From Classic and Critical to Integrative Psychiatry: Dan J. Stein, MD, PhD, DPhil
 
31) Trauma and the Politics of Diagnosis: Janice Haaken, PhD
 
32) Critique of Pure Madness: Wouter Kusters, PhD
 
33) The Neurodiversity Paradigm in Psychiatry: Robert Chapman, PhD
 
34) The Biocognitive Model for Biopsychosocial Psychiatry: Niall McLaren, MBBS, FRANZCP
 
35) The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq
 
 
** The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Q&A with Judith S. Beck, PhD (published as a standalone interview)
 
(P.S. Bridging Critical and Conceptual Psychiatry: My Interview with Mad in America)


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