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Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns

Rebecca Thomas reports for The Independent: “Mental health hospitals for children are making patients worse, a major charity has found, as more than half of those they treat report negative experiences. Britain’s child inpatient mental health units are being used as…
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What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review

This review by Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong has been published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. The abstract says: “Objective To identify all scientific papers that used internal industry documents in the pharmaceutical sector and analyze what and how the…
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JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”

This article by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In a viewpoint piece published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers write that there is no evidence that psychiatric interventions lead to ‘successful’ outcomes. Successful outcomes, they write, include…
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It has a huge and powerful lobby which turns with fury on its critics so I know this question will get me into loads of trouble but… does ADHD even exist?

This article by Peter Hitchens has been published by the Daily Mail. It begins: “Does  ADHD  in fact exist? This week the  BBC ’s Panorama programme quite rightly exposed some very worrying private clinics.  In online consultations,  staff had diagnosed a BBC reporter with ADHD  — attention deficit hyperactivity disorder —…
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I don’t have ADHD, but three private clinics say I do

This report by Rory Carson concerns undercover work that he conducted for the BBC’s Panorama team, which specialises in investigative journalism. It begins: “A leading NHS consultant psychiatrist has met me in person and concluded I don’t have ADHD – attention…
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What is formulation in psychiatry?

“When assessing the same patient, two experts may produce two similar summaries, but two different formulations. This is the fundamental difference: a summary is descriptive, whereas a formulation is analytical and evaluative… formulating a case with clarity and precision is…
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ADHD is Not an Illness and Ritalin is Not a Cure: A Comprehensive Rebuttal of the (alleged) Scientific Consensus

This book has been written by Dr. Yaakov Ophir. The publishers say: “Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the most prevalent neuropsychiatric label in childhood, a valid medical condition? Should we really refer to the millions of children diagnosed with ADHD…
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One Flew Over the Scientific Consensus’ Nest—The Story of Dr. Ophir and ADHD

This article by Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “As a child, Jacob did everything right. He went to the best schools, had the best grades, and made it to the best universities. Soon enough…
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