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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
Heaven is other people
Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
The search for wellbeing
Lucy Johnstone | In-depth interview
Lucy Johnstone Articles
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The Physical and Psychological Differences Between Men and Women
Madness and Wisdom
The Secret Conjurer
How Men and Women Think
Forgetting to Be Me
Who We Have Been and Who We Are
Narrating the Brain
Why Society Drives You Mad
Mind, Myth and Madness
Seeing Through Psychosis
How to Make the Right Decision
Minds, Matter and Mechanisms
Mechanisms of the Mind
Mazes of the Mind
Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
A Mad World
Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
The Vital Statistics
The Science of Sex
Beyond Psychotherapy
Memory and Forgetting
The Science of Psychedelics
Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Mind, Madness, and Power
Where Is My Mind?
Neuro-Everything?
Love Is the Drug
Metaphors of the Mind
Drugged Up
Treating Psychosis
Memory and the Self
Dark Matter of The Mind
Madness, Incorporated
Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
Madness: What's in a word?
Are We All Bipolar Now?
Taking Over the Asylum
A Checklist for Sanity
Sexuality After Genetics
Nature's Hidden Persuaders
Manufacturing Love
How to Be Brave
Creating Change
The psychology of bad habits
The Rise and Fall of Sex
How To Help Your Body Help Your Mind
Lucy Johnstone | In-depth interview
A Paranoid World?
More Articles
The Bipolar Construct
Mental Health: Visions of the Future
Spotting the Killers On Our Streets
The Harms of the Concept of PTSD
The Roots of Anxiety and How to Escape It
Mental Disorders Are Real, Diagnosis Or Not
The Myths and the Science Behind Mindfulness
Optimism and the Good Life
Should I Pretend That I'm Perfect?
The new opium of the people
The madness of philosophers
Everything you know about happiness is wrong
Is your worldview making you depressed?
Psychoanalysis vs CBT: uncovering the unconscious
Why courage is critical to morality
The feedback loop from hell
Reality and mental disorder
Madness and Genius
Too much pleasure causes pain
Mental health is contagious
Phone addiction is worse than smoking or cocaine
Philosophy, Therapy and the Search for Meaning
The hidden logic behind emotions
More openness around suicide could help prevent it
The existential cure for the mental health crisis
The man who mistook reality for a fantasy
The Mental Health Industrial Complex has manufactured a crisis
The Memory Monopoly
Why Schools Must Give Up the Myth of Success
Could Fake News Create Fake Memories?