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Lucy Johnstone
Dr Lucy Johnstone is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry. She has worked in adult mental health settings for many years, alternating with academic posts. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate, a highly regarded course which was based on a critical, politically-aware and service-user informed philosophy, along with an emphasis on personal development. Lucy has authored a number of books, including ‘Users and Abusers of Psychiatry.
Dr Lucy Johnstone is a UK clinical psychologist, trainer, speaker and writer, and a long-standing critic of biomedical model psychiatry. She has worked in adult mental health settings for many years, alternating with academic posts. She is the former Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate, a highly regarded course which was based on a critical, politically-aware and service-user informed philosophy, along with an emphasis on personal development. Lucy has authored a number of books, including ‘Users and Abusers of Psychiatry.
Lucy Johnstone Videos
A Mad World
Is modern life bad for your mental health?
Heaven is other people
Is mental wellbeing a purely social issue?
Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
We need another understanding of mental health | Lucy Johnstone
The search for wellbeing
Can we talk ourselves better?
Lucy Johnstone | In-depth interview
On mental health, diagnosis and formulation
Lucy Johnstone Articles
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The Physical and Psychological Differences Between Men and Women
The biology and psychology of sex difference
Madness and Wisdom
Might madness be a strange form of wisdom?
The Secret Conjurer
How does the brain play tricks on us?
How Men and Women Think
Are mental differences between the sexes real?
Forgetting to Be Me
Is true memory a fantasy?
Who We Have Been and Who We Are
Is memory a recollection or a construction?
Narrating the Brain
Benjamin Dalton | Neuroscience's story of the self
Why Society Drives You Mad
Environmental psychology & mental illness
Mind, Myth and Madness
Are biological accounts of mental illness useful?
Seeing Through Psychosis
Juliette Burton | Illuminated by mental illness
How to Make the Right Decision
Fixing your biases with cognitive science
Minds, Matter and Mechanisms
Are humans more than machines?
Mechanisms of the Mind
Margaret Boden | Rethinking memory through AI
Mazes of the Mind
The philosophy of neuroscience
Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts
Are We In Control of Our Selves?
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
A Mad World
Is modern life bad for your mental health?
Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
We need another understanding of mental health | Lucy Johnstone
The Vital Statistics
Should gender differences be accepted?
The Science of Sex
On the real differences between gender and sex
Beyond Psychotherapy
When drugs won’t do
Memory and Forgetting
Forgetfulness and the self
The Science of Psychedelics
David Nutt | Can drugs transform mental health?
Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Should we not name illnesses?
Mind, Madness, and Power
Is psychiatry dangerous?
Where Is My Mind?
It's not all in the brain
Neuro-Everything?
Love Is the Drug
Can we have a pill that sparks love?
Metaphors of the Mind
Ophelia Deroy uncovers the origins of experience.
Drugged Up
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
Treating Psychosis
The limits of anti-psychotics
Memory and the Self
Do memories make us who we are?
Dark Matter of The Mind
Why human nature is not pre-determined
Madness, Incorporated
Are psychiatric diagnoses real?
Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
David Healy | Psychiatric drugs destroy sex lives
Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
Raymond Tallis explains why our love for music remains beyond science's grasp
Madness: What's in a word?
The language behind it
Are We All Bipolar Now?
The boundaries of mental health
Taking Over the Asylum
A Checklist for Sanity
The limits to our understanding of mental illness
Sexuality After Genetics
Nature's Hidden Persuaders
The evolution of the placebo effect
Manufacturing Love
How to make romance last
How to Be Brave
In an age of anxiety, revisit the most resilient virtue.
Creating Change
The future of arts provision in mental healthcare.
Crime and punishment
Criminal pscyhology's insights into human nature
Waking from darkness
The psychology underpinning spirituality
Heaven is other people
Is mental wellbeing a purely social issue?
Why we are out of our minds
Entrapped by the human condition
Life without labels
Problems with modern mental health
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Is your worldview making you depressed?
Psychoanalysis vs CBT: uncovering the unconscious
Why courage is critical to morality
The feedback loop from hell
Forgetting is more important than remembering
The truth about the Myers–Briggs personality test
Reality and mental disorder
When memory fails, imagination fails with it
Madness and Genius
There is no problem of consciousness
Mental health is contagious
Creativity is not a right brain phenomenon
Phone addiction is worse than smoking or cocaine
The Problematic Rise of Big Neuro
The Bipolar Construct
Mental Health: Visions of the Future
The End of Psychology?
Philosophy, Therapy and the Search for Meaning
The hidden logic behind emotions
The difficulty of defining death
More openness around suicide could help prevent it
Overcoming illness with your life story
New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem
The hidden risks of Neuralink
The existential cure for the mental health crisis
The reality gap
The man who mistook reality for a fantasy