Therapy Culture

The Therapy Industry Invents Re-entry Syndrome

16 March 2021 RT Watch out, fellow Covid inmates – our long-awaited liberation from house arrest may apparently cause anxiety, stress and...

The making of a Covid mental-health crisis Scaremongering about the psychological impact of lockdown

10 March 2021 Spiked It seems that the only legitimate grounds on which the UK government’s lockdown policy can now be criticised is that...

We are Addicted To Addiction

2 March 2021 RT The medicalisation of everyday problems – such as spending too much time on your phone – is stunting our development. It...

Is disability the new normal?

Students in higher education are increasingly classified as either disabled or as suffering from mental-health issues. Disability on...

Manufacturing anxiety

How the mental-health panic is messing up the next generation. We live in a world in which children and young people are constantly told...

Competitive self-harm

It is difficult not to feel distressed and saddened by the death of Molly Russell. She is the 14-year-old British schoolgirl whose...

How ‘gender neutrality’ could screw up the next generation

At first sight, the call from Ann Millington, chief executive of Kent Fire and Rescue, to change the name of the children’s TV character...