Monthly Archives: March 2010

Manufacturing depression

In an article published in The Observer on Sunday Gary Greenberg is interviewed following publication of his new book “Manufacturing Depression”. In his book Greenberg discusses his history of depressive symptomatology and calls into question the wholesale prescription of anti-depressants … Continue reading

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Useful BBC resource

Following the first Global Mental Health Summit in Athens in September 2009 the BBC collected a number of interesting resources which remain available on their web site.

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Schizophrenia among British African Caribbean groups

The Guardian today contains two [1; 2] articles which describe responses to an research examining the prevalence of schizophrenia in black and minority ethnic people in the UK. The response is because the original piece of research has had a … Continue reading

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