It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All
David Healy
Mental Health | Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman and more
In this 28 minute video from The Institute of Arts and Ideas, “Simon Baron-Cohen, Lucy Johnstone, David Healy, Caroline Hickman, Patricia Casey, Dinesh Bhugra, Havi Carel, Richard Bentall and Ann John discuss the complexities of mental health”:
Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Suicide Note
Psychiatry Past & Present
This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes two lecture videos from Dr. David Healy (professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association), together with downloadable slides and more. The organisers…
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The Anti-Depressant Era
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardisation of Psychiatric Practice
“Psychiatry has been rather successful at growing business – perhaps even more so than other branches of medicine and even more so since its turn to the body and drugs that can be impossible to stop.” Prof. David Healy has…
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Psychiatric Drugs Explained
‘I lost a decade of my life to prescription drugs’
“The main sufferers of prescription-medication withdrawal are white women over the age of 45. We know how to put people on these drugs, we just don’t know how to get them off.” Dr. David Healy, professor of psychiatry, Bangor University….
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Some interesting quotations (2)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “… there’s not a lot to master in medications. It’s like ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ where you had Hal the supercomputer juxtaposed with the ape with the bone. I…
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Ten Myths about Depression and Psycho-Pharmacology:
An article called “ Psychiatry Gone Astray “, by Prof. Peter Gøtzsche, appears on the blog site of psychiatrist Dr. David Healy. The article lists ten myths about mental illness and psycho-pharmacology: Myth 1: Your disease is caused by a chemical imbalance in…
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