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The following Editorial was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in February 2014: The authors declared no competing interests and gave the following biographical details: Nick Craddock is Professor … Continue reading Craddock and Mynor-Wallis’s assault on thinking
This is an Editorial that I submitted to the British Journal of Psychiatry. It was rejected for the following reasons: MS ID#: BJP/2012/115832 The strengths of this paper are: It discusses … Continue reading The other side of the fence: Iatrogenic stigma
A reply by Peter J. Gordon to the Editorial: Erving Goffman’s Asylums 50 years on. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2011) 198. It so happened that as I opened up … Continue reading Hold hands among the atoms
Written by Dr Peter J. Gordon, 25th February 2011 Response to the Re-appraisal: Neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia, British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2011. In this reappraisal, the authors contend that … Continue reading Lifting Lidz
Reply to the Editorial: Has psychopharmacology got a future? The British Journal of Psychiatry (2011) 198: 333-335. Film version of ‘Gilbert Farie Re-visited‘: Yes, psychopharmacology has a future.[1] I do … Continue reading Gilbert Farie Re-visited
Response to the Editorial: The ‘continuum of psychosis’: scientifically unproven and clinically impractical.The British Journal of Psychiatry (2010) 197, 423-425 This response was published in the Br J Psychiatry This … Continue reading Bathwater and the baby
BJPsych Editorial: Questioning the ‘neuroprotective’ hypothesis: Does drug treatment prevent brain damage in early psychosis or schizophrenia? By Joanna Moncrieff. Reaching Cells, reply by Dr Peter J. Gordon, 9 February … Continue reading Reaching cells
Commentary upon the Editorial by Randolph Nesse MD: Evolution at 150: time for truly biological psychiatry. The British Journal of Psychiatry (2009) 195: 471-472 This was a welcome Editorial for … Continue reading A Coat of Dr Pangloss