A new study might signal the final nail in the coffin of the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory of depression. This new review of existing studies has concluded the idea that low levels of serotonin cause depression does not stand up to scrutiny. Read more
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I am a licensed physician in the United States of America, where the Supreme Court’s recent Dobbs v. Jackson ruling, overturning Roe v. Wade, nullifies constitutional protections on access to abortion.
This Summer issue of Asylum contains several articles about the state of mental health services today.
Peter Campbell was a gentle giant of the UK psychiatric survivors’ movement.
“Turn Illness into a Weapon” professed the manifesto of the SPK or Socialist Patients Collective. “The kidney stones that make you suffer,” they declared, are the same as “the stone thrown into the control room of capitalism. 1
