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The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq

Author: Editorial 5th August 2022 0 Comments

Dr. Awais Aftab (psychiatrist) has interviewed Jim Gottstein for the Psychiatric Times. Subtitled “A lawyer weighs in on pharmaceutical corruption and involuntary psychiatric care”. The introduction to the interview begins: “The Zyprexa Papers is a fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained and…
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Awais Aftab, Ely Lilly, Jim Gottstein, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, USA, zyprexa

It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis

Author: Editorial 1st August 2022 0 Comments

This article by Sahanika Ratnayake has been published in the journal Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology on the Project Muse website. The abstract says: “Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of psychotherapy, associates mental illnesses such as depression,…
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& Psychology, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, depressive realism, philosophy, philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of science, psychiatry, Sahanika Ratnayake, underdetermination

A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression

Author: Editorial 25th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Jonathan Leo, Mark Horowitz, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, Psychology Today, serotonin

Pharmaceutical Journal: Deep disappointment as government scraps plan for national helpline

Author: Editorial 21st July 2022 0 Comments

Writing for The Pharmaceutical Journal, Julia Robinson reports : “The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will not be taking forward recommendations to set up a helpline to support patients struggling with prescribed drug dependence, The Pharmaceutical Journal has learned. This follows…
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence (APPG), Department of Health and Social Care, drug withdrawal, Julia Robinson, Luke Montagu, The Pharmaceutical Journal

Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption

Author: Editorial 18th July 2022 0 Comments

This article (published on the medicinehitchiker blog) has been written by Dr. Marcia Angell, former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. It begins: “Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking…
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Alan Schatzberg, bipolar, Charles Grassley, corruption, Dr. Marcia Angell, Joseph Biederman, medicinehitchiker, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine

Author: Editorial 13th July 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publisher says: “Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, shocking in its brutality and sobering in its implications. It shows how a leading American psychiatrist of the early twentieth century came to believe that mental…
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Andrew Scull, asylum, books, Henry Cotton, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, psychosis, Trenton State Hospital

From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?

Author: Editorial 7th July 2022 0 Comments

This article by Maryanne Demasi has been published in the British Medical Journal: “Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit the market. But do they have sufficient independence from the companies…
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BMJ, British Medical Journal., drug regulators, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Maryanne Demasi, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, MHRA, pharmaceutical industry

Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

Author: Editorial 30th June 2022 0 Comments

This book is from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for…
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books, England, history of psychiatry, psychiatry, United States

Brief response to queries about the new All Wales Psychiatric Genomics Service

Author: Editorial 29th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Jonathan Gadsby has been published by the Critical Mental Health Nurses’ Network. It begins: “Thank you to all those who have been in touch about this. It would be wrong to say that the Critical Mental Health Nurses’…
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epigenetics, Genetics, Human Genome Project, Jonathan Gadsby, Power Threat Meaning Framework, psychiatric genetics, schizophrenia, Wales

What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?

Author: Editorial 27th June 2022 0 Comments

“… [Nassir] Ghaemi, a professor of psychiatry at Tufts Medical School, concluded that psychiatric drugs, except for lithium, do not provide a long-term benefit and thus should mostly be prescribed for short-term relief of symptoms.“ This article by Robert Whitaker has…
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antidepressants, antipsychotics, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, lithium, Mad in America, Nassir Ghaemi, placebo effect, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, schizophrenia

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