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	Health Report - 26 February 2001 - Graded Exercise For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
		Richard Bentall: The approach which we've taken is to assume that the symptoms that chronic fatigue patients experience are very real ones, that they're caused by physiological disregulation which is a consequence of long periods of inactivity.
		Richard Bentall: What we did was we explained to them what we believed were the factors involved in maintaining their symptoms.
		Richard Bentall: Eighty-one percent of the patients said that they felt they had benefited from the treatment, and of those, by far the majority experienced a return to normal functioning during the period of the trial.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/healthreport/stories/2001/252103.htm (1693 words)

	Review: Madness Explained by Richard P Bentall \| Books \| EducationGuardian.co.uk
		The publicity sets up its author, Richard Bentall, as an anti-psychiatrist in the manner of RD Laing, but the contents are actually much less controversial.
		Bentall, who is professor of experimental clinical psychology at Manchester University, delves into "normal" mental processes by investigating psychotic illness.
		Bentall uses these striking examples as ballast for his argument that contemporary psychiatry is inevitably misled in its employment of drug treatment and adherence to diagnostic classification systems.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/books/story/0,10595,1055454,00.html (539 words)

	EconLog, Has Bentall Explained Madness?, Bryan Caplan: Library of Economics and Liberty
		For all his disagreements with mainstream psychiatry, Bentall is not ready to say that the "mentally ill" are just people with extreme preferences - and he is certainly not ready to declare that mental illness is a pseudo-scientific excuse for being a permanent parasite on family and society.
		Bentall argues that an old-fashioned psychological explanation - immigrants find it harder to trust (and be trusted by?) people from a different culture - fits the facts well.
		Bentall ignores the fact it's often family members, and not the mentally ill themselves, who refuse to "accept" the symptoms.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2006/10/has_bentall_exp.html (1172 words)

	Richard Bentall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bentall, R. Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature.
		Bentall, R. and Slade, P.D. (eds) (1992) Reconstructing Schizophrenia.
		Bentall, R. and Slade, P.D. Sensory Deception: A Scientific Analysis of Hallucination.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Bentall (282 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature: Books: Aaron T. Beck,Richard P. Bentall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Laing unlike Bentall was able to tolerate his inconsistencies-Laing recognised the ungraspable and unrelaible and inconsistent nature of mental illness....this is why "science" fuelled by ambition (books, theories, expertise) fails and falls hard to adavance our understanding.
		Bentall refuses the Cartesian divide, which requires it to be seen either as a brain disease or as 'all in the mind'.
		Bentall has a hopeful message to sufferers and their friends and families, though you have to work through a long book to reach it: family therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy do have the potential to help people back towards sanity.
	amazon.co.uk /Madness-Explained-Psychosis-Human-Nature/dp/0713992492 (1761 words)

	Schizophrenia' may not exist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Together with colleagues at Manchester, Glasgow, Cambridge and Birmingham, Professor Bentall has recently received a £1.5m grant from the Medical Research Council to research this approach, in which the UK is acknowledged as a world leader.
		Professor Bentall will be discussing his ideas at one of the University's Café Scientifique discussion evenings on 5 September at 6.30pm; please visit http://www.cafescientifique.manchester.ac.uk for more details.
		Richard Bentall (psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk/staff/RichardBentall) undertook a PhD in experimental psychology in Bangor before obtaining a qualification in clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool and an MA in philosophy applied to health care from University College Swansea.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=30195 (731 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Bentall, on the other hand, began as a bête noire for psychiatry.
		There is a telling contrast between the output of replicable findings on psychotic symptoms achieved from the very modest financial support that came his way, and the close-to-zero clinical benefits from the recent investment of billions in genetic and neuro-imaging research focused on disease entities.
		If the Royal College of Psychiatrists had the imagination to offer Richard Bentall an honorary fellowship for contributions to psychopathology, they might improve the odds on one of "us" being counted as a significant figure 50 years from now.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article99605.ece (1096 words)

	Limbicnutrition Old: Power to the patients! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall interviewed in the New Scientist...He found himself sobbing uncontrollably, unable to work a sandwich dispenser and consumed by guilt.
		Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall had taken a psychiatric drug as part of an experiment.
		Clinical psychologist Richard Bentall interviewed in the New Scientist.
	www.limbicnutrition.com /blog/archives/021463.html (730 words)

	Will soaps or science open others' minds
		Bentall argues that cognitivism offers a way around the problems of body/ mind dualism that bedevil psychiatry, but he fails to acknowledge the problem of what the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus calls epistemological dualism, or the separation of knowing subject from known-about world.
		Bentall rejects so-called postmodern critiques of science as relativistic, but in doing so he fails to engage with a concern for ethics.
		My point is that Bentall is struggling with different types of knowledge, that which concerns explanations (science) and that which concerns understanding people (narrative).
	www.critpsynet.freeuk.com /THESThomas.htm (674 words)

	Richard Bentall: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Speaking at a news conference, Richard Bentall, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, said the concept of schizophrenia is scientifically meaningless, much like the concept of "love."
		But as Richard Bentall, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, shows in his contribution to this volume, the science regarding the etiology of schizophrenia is not nearly as clear as psychiatrists often imply.
		Bentall points to several weaknesses in the leading theory, which holds that schizophrenia is caused by an excess of the neurotransmitter dopamine.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/Bentall_Richard_20674480.aspx (344 words)

	Sunday Services : UU Church of Nashua
		I certainly would have to concede Dr. Bentall the point that anyone who went around in a constant state of joy would be at best a little odd, and at worst terribly self-deluded about the life they're living and the world they're living it in.
		Bentall's jargon, are rather infrequent, and I think this reality does generate a fair degree of tension in this upcoming season of holiday and celebration.
		I like to think of joy, or happiness (and I'm using the terms interchangeably--even as Dr. Bentall did) not as something we go out and grab off somehow, but rather as a state or condition that is always there in the fabric of our lives and that surfaces from time to time.
	www.uunashua.org /sermons/joy.shtml (2638 words)

	Review of Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature by Richard Bentall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Any failure on the part of Bentall to create a new understanding of madness arises not from his lack of effort but the difficult, if not impossible, nature of the task in itself.
		Bentall has the same radical streak, and sees his work as a ground-breaking way of thinking about madness and its treatment.
		However, my disappointment with Bentall is greater, and it takes longer to get there because of the length of the book.
	www.critpsynet.freeuk.com /ReviewofMadnessExplained.htm (439 words)

	Amazon.com: Madness Explained: Books: Richard P. Bentall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Bentall shows us that attempts to explain and to understand mental symptoms are inextricably linked.
		To this, Bentall would object, first, that he uses some of the insights of psychoanalysis as working hypotheses in his models and, second, that theories that cannot be tested experimentally are not worth considering.
		Bentall also argues that maybe there is perhaps nothing really serious going on, perhaps it is just human nature.
	www.amazon.com /Madness-Explained-Richard-P-Bentall/dp/0140275401 (1664 words)

	MADNESS EXPLAINED - Richard P. Bentall - Penguin Books
		In this ground-breaking and controversial work Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround madness, showing that there is no clear, reassuring dividing line between mental health and mental illness.
		Experiences such as delusional beliefs and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of mental foibles to which we are all vulnerable, and in some cultures are not seen as abnormal at all.
		Gathering together strands of research from a wide range of disciplines – psychology, sociology, anthropology and the neurosciences – he shows how it is possible to arrive at a ‘joined-up’ understanding of psychiatric problems, which take into account both biological processes and environmental factors.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780713992496,00.html (320 words)

	Richard Gosden
		Richard Gosden, Schismatic Mind: Controversies over the cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2000.
		Loren R. Mosher, Richard Gosden and Sharon Beder, Drug companies and Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism meets Madness, in Models of Madness: Psychological, Social and Biological Approaches to Schizophrenia edited by John Read, Loren Mosher and Richard Bentall, Brunner-Routledge, New York, 2004, pp.
		Richard Gosden, Economic Rationalism as a Mental Disease, Conference Proceedings, Ecopolitics X, Australian National University, September 26-29, 1996.
	homepage.mac.com /herinst/rgosden/home.html (515 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Lester, 327 (7422) 1055
		Bentall's book is an attack on mainstream psychiatric practice, and it arises not merely because he is a clinical psychologist.
		An excitement may have been created that Bentall may be the modern version of RD Laing.
		Richard Bentall, in an interview for New Scientist, when asked how he differed from the anti-psychiatrists, answered that he was a scientist and that by contrast Laing did not know when his ideas were inconsistent.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/327/7422/1055-a (476 words)

	Madness Explained - Richard P. Bentall - Penguin Group (USA)
		In Madness Explained leading clinical psychologist Richard Bentall shatters the modern myths that surround psychosis.
		This groundbreaking work argues that we cannot define madness as an illness to be cured like any other; that labels such as ‘schizophrenia’ and ‘manic depression’ are meaningless, based on nineteenth-century classifications; and that experiences such as delusions and hearing voices are in fact exaggerations of the mental foibles to which we are all vulnerable.
		We need, Bentall argues, a radically new way of thinking about psychiatric problems—one that does not reduce madness to brain chemistry, but understands and accepts it as part of human nature.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780140275407,00.html (231 words)

	SSRI DISCUSSION FORUM
		Richard Bentall, professor of experimental clinical psychology, from the University of Manchester, said: "We do not doubt there are people who have distressing experiences such as hearing voices or paranoid fears.
		Professor Bentall said: "Overall, I think the concept is scientifically meaningless, clinically unhelpful and ultimately has been damaging to patients."
		And Professor Bentall suggested patients should be treated on the basis of individual symptoms, as opposed to an overarching category.
	network54.com /Forum/281849/message/1160403071/...+term+use+'invalid' (696 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reconstructing Schizophrenia: Books: Richard P. Bentall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		by Richard P. Bentall (Editor) "It might appear that the history of the concept of schizophrenia has been well documented: a number of texts (for example, Leigh 1961; Hunter and..." (more)
		The result is a book that provides a distinctive and critical perspective on modern psychiatric theories and which demonstrates the severe limitations of an exclusively medical approach to understanding madness.
		Richard P. Bentall is Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Psychology, Liverpool University Medical School.
	www.amazon.ca /Reconstructing-Schizophrenia-Richard-P-Bentall/dp/041501574X (357 words)

	NYAPRS \| Mental Health E-News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Schizophrenia should be abolished as a concept, a group of mental health experts say today, because it is a catch-all term which does not define a specific illness and carries a stigma that destroys people's lives.
		He added that symptoms such as delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations are not the results of the illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in life.
		Speaking at a news conference, Richard Bentall, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, said the concept of schizophrenia is scientifically meaningless.
	www.nyaprs.org /Pages/View_ENews.cfm?ENewsID=6143 (770 words)

	Personality and Individual Differences. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Peter Kinderman, Richard P. Bentall, A new measure of causal locus: the internal, personal and situational attributions questionnaire, Personality and Individual Differences 20 (2) (1996) pp.
		Haddock, P.D. Slade, R.P. Bentall, Auditory hallucinations and the verbal transformation effect: the role of suggestions, Personality and Individual Differences 19 (3) (1995) pp.
		Thomas O'Reilly, Robin Dunbar, Richard Bentall, Schizotypy and creativity: an evolutionary connection?, Personality and Individual Differences 31 (7) (2001) pp.
	www1.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/01918869/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors&rangeselected=11 (617 words)

	Richard Bentall (Psychological Sciences - University of Manchester)
		Richard Bentall (Psychological Sciences - University of Manchester)
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		Most recently, with Tony Morrisson of Mental Services of Salford NHS Trust, I have begun a clinical trial of CBT for individuals at high risk of psychosis, the aim of which is to determine whether vulnerable individuals can be prevented from becoming ill.
	www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk /staff/RichardBentall (708 words)

	Boffin: Schizophrenia does not exist
		Prof Richard Bentall, from Manchester University, said the illness is a misleading term that lumps together people suffering from unconnected problems.
		Prof Bentall, who teaches experimental clinical psychology, claims the failure to find a common cause for schizophrenia helps prove the term has no scientific basis.
		Prof Bentall, who has spent several years researching mental illness, was speaking after receiving a £1.5m grant from the Medical Research Council for a joint study with three other universities into new ways of treating mental illness.
	www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk /news/health/s/172/172042_boffin_schizophrenia_does_not_exist.html?rss=yes (477 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to Richard Bentall, Professor in Experimental Clinical Psychology at The University of Manchester, the problem is that the psychiatric category 'schizophrenia' falsely groups people with a wide range of problems together.
		"Psychiatric diagnoses are based on a set of false assumptions stemming from the 19th century," says Professor Bentall, writer of the highly successful book 'Madness Explained'.
		Although sufferers' responses have been very positive however, the availability of psychological treatments for psychiatric difficulties nowhere near matches the incidence of such problems.
	www.perceptions.couk.com /psystars.txt (238 words)

	Richard Bentall (Psychological Sciences - University of Manchester) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richard Bentall (Psychological Sciences - University of Manchester) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.csres.utexas.edu)
		I am a grant-holder (together with Shon Lewis, Nick Tarrier, Peter Kinderman and David Kingdon) for the SoCRATES (Study of Cognitive Realignment Therapy in Early Schizophrenia) project, in which over 300 first and second episode schizophrenia patients have been randomly assigned to CBT, supportive counselling or treatment as usual; this project is nearing completion.
		I am also a grant-holder (togather with Jan Scott, Richard Morriss, Peter Kinderman and Eugen Paykell) of a large scale multi-centre study of CBT for patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
	www.psych-sci.manchester.ac.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /staff/RichardBentall (711 words)

	Abolish label 'schizophrenia,' psychologist says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"It groups together a whole range of different problems under one label," Richard Bentall, a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Manchester, told a news conference in London on Monday, the eve of World Mental Health Day.
		People with schizophrenia should be diagnosed and treated based on their individual psychological symptoms, rather than psychiatric categories of symptoms that may not apply, said Bentall.
		Bentall's perspective runs contrary to mainstream psychiatry, said Dr. Robert Zipursky, a psychiatrist with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
	www.cbc.ca /health/story/2006/10/10/schizophrenia.html?ref=rss (1397 words)

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