Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica – A New Vision for Mental Health

Saving psychiatry from itself: will young psychiatrists choose authoritarian power or authoritative respect?

Author: Editorial 15th January 2024 0 Comments

This editorial comment from John Read appears in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. It begins: “In their important paper, ‘Images of psychiatry and psychiatrists’, Stuart et al. 1 document the negative beliefs about psychiatrists and psychiatric treatments held by other medical disciplines in 15…
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a coherent system

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, John Read, psychiatry

Adding Antipsychotics Worsens Outcomes in Psychotic Depression

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2024 0 Comments

“Outcomes were worse for all, with young people on combination therapy twice as likely to experience rehospitalization or death by suicide than those on antidepressants alone.“ This report by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “Antipsychotics…
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collaborative practice

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Ahmed Al-Wandi, antipsychotics, Axel Nordenskjöld, Axel Nordenskjöld at Örebro University, Mad in America, Mikael Landén, Sweden