Conversations in Critical Psychiatry

Psychiatry and the Long View: Paul Summergrad, MD

May 20, 2021

In this conversation, a former APA president discusses mystical and meditative experiences, reconciling psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and tensions surrounding the medical model.

Reconsidering Care and Coercion in Psychiatry: Kathleen Flaherty, JD

April 21, 2021

A lawyer discusses how the legal system treats (and mistreats) those with mental illnesses.

Phenomenology, Power, Polarization, and Psychosis

April 13, 2021

Patient perspectives in academic discourse in psychiatry have historically been a neglected area. What are some of the consequences and implications of this absence? How has this affected both psychiatry and those who have been excluded? These questions and more are discussed.

Exploring Psychiatry and the Human Condition: Joanna Moncrieff, MD

March 25, 2021

How can we ensure that our attributions of meaning are not simply instances of creative storytelling?

Psychiatry and the Shores of Social Construction: Sami Timimi, MD

March 12, 2021

Are current systems of mental health care alienating children and adults from the meaning inherent in their own emotional difficulties?

A People’s History of Depression: Jonathan Sadowsky, PhD

March 05, 2021

The story of depression, through time and around the world.

A Psychiatrist Weaving Conceptual and Empirical Work

February 20, 2021

An interview with Kenneth S. Kendler, MD, vice-chair of the American Psychiatric Association DSM Steering Committee, author of more than 1200 articles, and one of the highest-cited researchers in psychiatry.

There and Back Again: Joseph Pierre, MD

January 08, 2021

How can the best insights of mainstream and critical psychiatry be brought together?

Integration, Common Principles, and the Future of Psychotherapy: Marvin R. Goldfried, PhD

December 04, 2020

How can psychotherapy become a mature science?

The Bureaucratic Takeover of American Psychiatry: George Dawson, MD, DFAPA

November 13, 2020

In this interview with Dr Aftab, Dr Dawson discusses how the rise of managed care industry and associated business forces have led to a profound deterioration of psychiatric practice environment in the United States.