Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry – A New Vision for Mental Health

‘The medical model has presided over four decades of flat-lining outcomes’

Author: Editorial 1st March 2023 0 Comments

“Author, anthropologist and psychotherapist Dr James Davies tells Fauzia Khan about his journey into the field of mental health and his work as co-founder of the Council for Evidence-based Psychiatry.” The transcript of this interview (conducted by Fauzia Khan) with Dr….
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antidepressants, Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, depression, Fauzia Khan, James Davies, psychiatry, The Psychologist

Professor John Read: Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate

Author: Editorial 15th June 2022 0 Comments

This article by Prof. John Read has been published by the Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry (CEP). It begins: “The Lack of Evidence for ECT To the surprise of many people, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is still being administered to approximately a million…
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Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, ECT, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), John Read, Research

ECT is a classic failure of evidence-based medicine

Author: Editorial 7th May 2021 0 Comments

This Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry has hosted a guest-blog by Prof. Richard Bentall, who writes: “In a discipline to which controversy is no stranger, there are few controversies guaranteed to generate as much heat as that surrounding the benefits and costs…
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Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, meta‐analyses, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research, Richard Bentall

Quiz used to diagnose depression is designed by drugs company

Author: Editorial 2nd August 2017 0 Comments

Depression is being over-diagnosed because GPs are too reliant on a “basic” questionnaire designed by a pharmaceutical company (Pfizer) which also manufacturers psychiatric drugs, campaigners have warned, as reported in the Daily Telegraph . The easy-to-use nine-question form sets the threshold for the…
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anxiety, Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, depression, diagnostic questionnaire, General Practitioners, PHQ-9 Patient Health Questionnaire, psychiatry