Placebo Effect – not antidepressants – responsible for depression improvement
Mad in the UK
In my career as a psychologist, I’ve seen many children misdiagnosed as autistic. It’s a clinical catastrophe
The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
Study highlights growing diversity of mental health models
The IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure
This article by Michael Scott has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In 2012, an editorial in the prestigious journal Nature claimed that the UK’s IAPT Service is ‘world-beating’—meaning that the service is the world’s best for treating mental health concerns. Now that 10…
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Trauma-Informed Care and PTMF reduce self-harm, seclusion, and restraint in acute inpatient psychiatric setting
Do not prescribe antidepressants for mild to moderate depression or at first visit
JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”
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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Researchers question the foundational assumptions of neuropsychology
This article by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Why does psychology struggle so much to achieve meaningful findings? In what has been termed the “replication crisis,” psychology’s much-hyped positive findings typically fail to replicate in later studies , leaving uncertainty about…
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