At the individual level, if we can identify the psychological mechanisms linking adverse environments to psychosis (and there has been a lot of progr….

There are many kinds of adult adversities that can provoke severe psychological distress, including debt and unemployment, dysfunctional marital rela….

At the population level, making the world more just and less unequal, while trying to figure out the toxic aspects of the urban environmental will pr….

My interest in the psychological roots of psychosis has both personal (my brother Andrew committed suicide) and professional origins (I was trained i….

There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the lan….

Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% h….

Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental healt….

There is also evidence from epidemiological studies that psychotic-like experiences are much more common than has hitherto been thought (with about 1….

The only way you can estimate environmental influences is by measuring them..

If we are to believe the evidence from clinical trials there are many effective pharmacological and psychological treatments for mental illness. Epid….

Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates….

Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or ….