Richard Gosden PhD

Dr Richard Gosden is an independent researcher and writer. He is currently tutoring in humanities at the Batemans Bay campus of the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

Dr Gosden's doctoral thesis was a study of psychiatric controversies over the cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia. He is the author of a number of articles on environmental issues, early treatment of schizophrenia, psychiatry and human rights, and the use of psychiatry in social control.

email: rgosden@mac.com

 

 

Allegory of an American Christmas,
Salvadore Dali, 1934


Publications

Book

Richard Gosden, Punishing the Patient: How Pyschiatrists Misunderstand and Mistreat Schizophrenia, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2001.

Thesis

Richard Gosden, Schismatic Mind: Controversies over the cause of the symptoms of schizophrenia, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2000.

Articles

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. 115-130.

Sharon Beder, Richard Gosden and Loren R. Mosher, 'Pig Pharma: Psychiatric Agenda Setting by Drug Companies', in Family Therapy as an Alternative to Medication: An Appraisal of Pharmland, edited by Phoebe S. Prosky and David V. Keith, Brunner-Routledge, New York, 2003, pp. 193-208.

Richard Gosden and Sharon Beder, Pharmaceutical Industry Agenda Setting in Mental Health Policies, Ethical Human Sciences and Services 3(3) Fall/Winter 2001, pp. 147-159.

Sharon Beder and Richard Gosden, WPP: World Propaganda Power, PRWatch, 8(2), 2001, pp. 9-10.

Richard Gosden and Greg Hampton, Academic Standards Versus Disability Rights, Ultibase, December 2000.

Richard Gosden, Coercive Psychiatry, Human Rights and Public Participation, in Brian Martin (ed.), Technology and Public Participation, Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong,1999, pp. 143-168.

Richard Gosden, Pre-Psychotic Treatment for Schizophrenia: Preventive Medicine, Social Control, or Drug Marketing Strategy?, Ethical Human Sciences and Services, Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 165-177.

Richard Gosden, Early Psychosis, British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 174, May 1999, pp. 461-462.

Richard Gosden, Guest Editorial, Schizophrenia, Psychiatry and Mysticism, Dream Again Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1998, p. 2.

Richard Gosden, Amendments to the NSW Mental Health Act, The Whistle, August, 1997, p. 12.

Richard Gosden, Shrinking the Dole Queue, Arena Magazine, No. 29, June-July 1997, pp. 39-41.

Richard Gosden, The Medicalisation of Deviance, Social Alternatives, Vol. 16, No. 2, April, 1997, pp. 58-60.

Richard Gosden, Neuroleptics and the Freedom of Thought: How Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment Violates Basic Human Rights, Monitors: Journal of Human Rights and Technology, University of Texas, Vol. 1, No. 1, February, 1997.

Richard Gosden, Economic Rationalism as a Mental Disease, Conference Proceedings, Ecopolitics X, Australian National University, September 26-29, 1996.

David Dingelstad, Richard Gosden, Brian Martin and Nickolas Vakas, The Social Construction of Drug Debates, Social Science and Medicine Vol. 43, No. 12, 1996, pp. 1829-1838.

Richard Gosden, STS Whipping Posts Enclose the Discipline, Technoscience, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall 1995, pp. 14-16.

Richard Gosden, Greening all the way to the bank, Arena Magazine, No. 16, April-May 1995, pp. 35-37.

Richard Gosden, The Race, Social Alternatives, Vol. 12, No. 3, October 1993, p. 53.

Richard Gosden, Suggestions for Resistance, Active Employment Strategy Bulletin, No. 2, May, 1991, p. 11.

Richard Gosden, Punishing the Unemployed, Active Employment Strategy Bulletin, No. 2, May, 1991, pp. 2 & 7-10.

Richard Gosden, ICI continues to pollute, Chain Reaction, No. 61, July 1990, pp. 19-21.

Richard Gosden, Policing The System, Sydney's Strangled Sewerage System, Proceedings of a conference organised by ANZAAS(NSW) at the University of NSW on June 13, 1990.

Richard Gosden, Sydney's toxic waste dump — the Pacific, Chain Reaction, No. 46, Winter, 1986, pp. 18-20.

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