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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall

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…

- Richard Bentall

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

- Richard Bentall