‘Growing crisis’: Thousands more 12 to 15 years olds being prescribed antidepressants
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Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert
Prescribers often fail to support patients discontinuing antidepressants, study finds
This report by Ashley Bobak has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “A majority of patients seeking medical support when discontinuing antidepressants found their prescribing doctors to be unhelpful, according to the results of the second-largest international…
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Toward a Change of Paradigm in Psychosis: A Contextual Phenomenological Approach
This abstract is of a chapter in Psychological Interventions for Psychosis that has been co-authored by Marino Pérez-Álvarez & José Manuel García-Montes: “This chapter sets out the increasing evidence that makes it clear that the understanding of psychosis from the…
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Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide Note
Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide for some patients, scientists warn
“Research into reports of people taking their own life showed drugs can be the motive and also give them the means” This report by Sarah Knapton has been published in The Telegraph. It begins: “Antidepressants raise the risk of suicide while also giving people the means…
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The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress
A Systematic Review of Associations Between Emotion Regulation Characteristics and Inflammation
This review has been published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. The abstract says: “Elevated inflammation is a risk factor for many psychiatric (e.g., depression) and somatic conditions (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis). Inflammation is influenced by psychosocial processes such as emotion regulation. Characterization…
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Three)
Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook . In this blog, he discusses the lack of evidence for benefit, and the evidence of harms, of psychosis drugs used for early…
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Psychedelic drug trip improves symptoms of depression for six months, breakthrough study finds
