The Critical Psychiatry Network (CPN) is a psychiatric organization based in the United Kingdom. It was created by a group of British psychiatrists who met in Bradford, England in January 1999 in response to proposals by the British government to amend the Mental Health Act 1983. They expressed concern about the implications of the proposed changes for human rights and the civil liberties of people with mental health illness. Most people associated with the group are practicing consultant psychiatrists in the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS), among them Dr Joanna Moncrieff. A number of non-consultant grade and trainee psychiatrists are also involved in the network.
Participants in the Critical Psychiatry Network share concerns about psychiatric practice where and when it is heavily dependent upon diagnostic classification and the use of psychopharmacology. These concerns reflect their recognition of poor construct validity amongst psychiatric diagnoses and scepticism about the efficacy of anti-depressants, mood stabilisers and anti-psychotic agents.[1] According to them, these concerns have ramifications in the area of the use of psychiatric diagnosis to justify civil detention and the role of scientific knowledge in psychiatry, and an interest in promoting the study of interpersonal phenomena such as relationship, meaning and narrative in pursuit of better understanding and improved treatment.
CPN has similarities and contrasts with earlier criticisms of conventional psychiatric practice, for example those associated with David Cooper, R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz. Features of CPN are pragmatism and full acknowledgment of the suffering commonly associated with mental health difficulties. As a result, it functions primarily as a forum within which practitioners can share experiences of practice, and provide support and encouragement in developing improvements in mainstream NHS practice where most participants are employed.
CPN maintains close links with service user or survivor led organisations such as the Hearing Voices Network, Intervoice and the Soteria Network, and with like-minded psychiatrists in other countries. It maintains its own website. The network is open to any sympathetic psychiatrist, and members meet in person, in the UK, twice a year. It is primarily intended for psychiatrists and psychiatric trainees and full participation is not available to other groups.
^Cite error: The named reference Ref_p was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
and 25 Related for: Critical Psychiatry Network information
The CriticalPsychiatryNetwork (CPN) is a psychiatric organization based in the United Kingdom. It was created by a group of British psychiatrists who...
either critical towards psychiatry or entirely hostile to the field. The CriticalPsychiatryNetwork is a group of psychiatrists who are critical of psychiatry...
would be inappropriate. The CriticalPsychiatryNetwork, a group of psychiatrists who critique the practice of psychiatry on many grounds, feel that the...
Dr. Summerfield is a member of UK branch of The International CriticalPsychiatryNetwork. "Dr. Derek Summerfield, BSc(Hons), MBBS, MRCPsych." Archived...
is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the CriticalPsychiatryNetwork. She is a prominent...
model has its critics, too – notably Joanna Moncrieff and the CriticalPsychiatryNetwork.[citation needed] Psychoactive drugs exert their sensory and...
psychiatric survivors movement The Shrink Next Door CriticalPsychiatryNetwork Talking Back to Psychiatry: The Psychiatric Consumer/Survivor/Ex-Patient Movement...
Forensic psychiatry is a subspeciality of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. According...
the National Institute of Mental Health. Memorandum from the CriticalPsychiatryNetwork to the United Kingdom Parliament – Written evidence to the House...
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR) is an anti-psychiatry lobbying organization established in 1969 by the Church of Scientology...
services. Breggin is the author of many books critical of psychiatric medication, including Toxic Psychiatry, Talking Back to Prozac and Talking Back to...
between Scientology and psychiatry has been dominated by strong opposition by the organization against the medical specialty of psychiatry and of psychology...
relates to one's own destiny", usually in a negative and hostile manner. In psychiatry, delusions of reference form part of the diagnostic criteria for psychotic...
'scientific psychiatry' in understanding patients with chronic schizophrenia or severe personality disorder". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 174 (3):...
folly: A critical examination of dissociative identity disorder. Part I. The excesses of an improbable concept" (PDF). Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 49 (9):...
"A critical review of the first 10 years of candidate gene-by-environment interaction research in psychiatry". The American Journal of Psychiatry. 168...
There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric...
anthropology had their primary training in medicine, nursing, psychology or psychiatry, including W. H. R. Rivers, Abram Kardiner, Robert I. Levy, Jean Benoist...
and Central Executive Networks in Subjects with Schizophrenia – A Whole-Brain Resting-State ICA Study". Frontiers in Psychiatry. 6: 26. doi:10.3389/fpsyt...
kappa represents a type of opioid receptor. Psychology and psychiatry In psychology and psychiatry, kappa represents a measure of diagnostic reliability....
other documents. The DSM-5 is considered one of the principal guides of psychiatry, along with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Chinese...
psychopathology. Within psychiatry the term anti-psychiatry was often used and now British activists prefer the term criticalpsychiatry. Critical psychology is...
Global Information