Duncan Double@DBDouble

Retired consultant psychiatrist. Founding member of Critical Psychiatry Network.

 East, England
dbdouble.blogspot.com/
Joined January 2009
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People may grow out of a childhood diagnosis of neurodivergence and find it more a hindrance than a help telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…

ADHD and autism diagnoses have skyrocketed. This man is reversing the trend

Like Britain, Sweden’s neurodiverse numbers have surged – but Dr Sebastian Lundström says he’s proving that many were labelled too quickly

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My views on Thirwall and what it omits chrisham1.substack.com/p/the…
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Thinking differently about mental health: Declining use of the terms 'schizophrenia' and 'mental illness’ criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…
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Thinking differently about mental health: Implications of critical psychiatry for practice criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…
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Police to speak to Farage about Reform UK donations. In order to put the Reform leader at ease, the Met have organised several hecklers to be present during the interview
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Protesters outside Portsmouth hotel mistake Pakistan U19 cricket team for asylum seekers

A group of masked agitators gathered outside a four-star hotel in Portsmouth after reports a group of asylum seekers had been taken there, when it was in fact Pakistan’s under-19 cricket team on a...

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NEW COURSE - Art in Community, Philosophy & Psychotherapy philadelphia-association.org…

ARTS IN COMMUNITY, PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOTH | the-pa

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Thinking differently about mental health: Do I want or need an ADHD identity? criticalpsychiatry.blogspot.…
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In his 2020 "free inquiry" article, N Cofnas wrote that "the heritability of a trait...can be determined by adoption and twin studies." He said this conclusion is based on two "testable assumptions." Both assumptions are false. Back to the "hereditarian revolution" drawing board.
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I’ve never seen him in a tie before so it must be serious 🙀
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Amol Rajan at the Edinburgh TV festival explains why the BBC is “screwed” via Wile E Coyote.
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Beyond ‘ADHD is real’: what does the evidence actually establish? | The BMJ bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…

Beyond ‘ADHD is real’: what does the evidence actually establish?

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Jason Arday: Britain needs to be honest about race in academia bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…

Jason Arday: Britain needs to be honest about race in academia

The polarised row over Cambridge’s youngest ever Black professor reveals much about merit and belonging in British academia, write Sam Seidu , Partha Kar , and Anton Emmanuel The death of Jason...

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It doesn’t make sense to say that my ADHD brain made me do impulsive or unexpected things. It is people, not their brains, who think, feel and behave.
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No biological markers for ADHD have been found.
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Psychiatric diagnosis is merely a hypothetical construct. We too easily assume such concepts are entities of some kind. They are justified by their clinical utility, but the ever expansion of the notion of neurodiversity questions its value.
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Public likely to accept AI-made decisions in time, says top judge legalcheek.com/2026/08/publi…

Public likely to accept AI-made decisions in time, says top judge - Legal Cheek

Cheaper and quicker

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