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Psychiatric Drugging of Children and Youth as a Form of Child Abuse: Not a Radical Proposition

This research article by Dr. Bonnie Burstow has been published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Although affirming that the psychiatric drugging of children constitutes both adultism (oppression based on treating adult behavior as normative) and sanism (oppression based…
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The IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure

This article by Michael Scott has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In 2012, an  editorial in the prestigious journal Nature  claimed that the UK’s IAPT Service is ‘world-beating’—meaning that the service is the world’s best for treating mental health concerns. Now that 10…
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The Making of Adult ADHD: The Rapid Rise of a Novel Psychiatric Diagnosis

“The history of psychiatry is a history of fads in theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Such rapid shifts in conceptualization—such as the emergence of the concept of adult ADHD—almost always warrant informed critical examination.” This article by Mark Ruffalo and S. Nassir…
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Wishful thinking: antidepressant drugs in childhood depression

This paper from Anne Tonkin and Jon Jureidini has been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It begins: “The use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in children under 18 years old increased ten-fold (from 0.5 to 4.6 per 1000)…
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Researchers Call on Psychiatry to Abandon Biomedical Framework

“Scholars reveal concerns about biomedical psychiatry, calling for a more scientific, unique, and effective approach to mental health care.“ This report by Kevin Gallagher has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “A newly published study in the Journal of Theoretical…
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 2: Are Psychiatric Disorders Mainly Genetic or Environmental? (Part One)

This chapter from Peter Gøtzsche’s Critical Psychiatry Textbook has been reproduced by Mad in America. It begins. “Textbook authors are preoccupied with telling the students that psychiatric disorders are hereditary. Obviously, this gives the specialty prestige. It makes it look more scientific to claim…
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No benefit of antidepressants in inpatient treatment of depression. A longitudinal, quasi-experimental field study

This article by Reinhard Maß, Kerstin Backhaus, Katharina Lohrer, Michael Szelies and Bodo K. Unkelbach has been published in Psychopharmacology. The abstract says: “Rationale Antidepressants (AD) are mostly considered indispensable for the treatment of major depression. The vast majority of…
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A Neuroscientist Evaluates the Standard Biological Model of Depression

This  research article  by Peter Sterling (Professor of Neuroscience) has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Abstract Neuroscientists widely hypothesize that ‘depression’ arises from a brain disorder caused by some defect in a specific neural pathway. If so, we might identify…
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