Mad in the UK

JAMA Psychiatry: No evidence that psychiatric treatments produce “successful outcomes”

This article by Peter Simons has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “In a viewpoint piece published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers write that there is no evidence that psychiatric interventions lead to ‘successful’ outcomes. Successful outcomes, they write, include…
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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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The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress

This article by Robert Murphy has been re-published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Psychiatry has failed to provide a definitive explanatory framework for mental illnesses, despite more than a hundred years of scientific and medical research. Its failure results…
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Mental health awareness campaigns may actually increase distress

This article by Jack Sears has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “An article published in New Ideas in Psychology hypothesizes that mental health awareness efforts in Western countries may be partially responsible for the rise of mental health problems…
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Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder

This account by JP Marshall of part of a research study has been published by Mad in the UK. It begins: “Not long ago, as part of a research study, I asked six young people how it was for them to…
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Despite More Treatments for Depression, Prevalence Doesn’t Decrease—Why?

This article by Peter Simons has been published on the Mad in the UK website. It begins: “Between 1987 and 2007, the number of people receiving treatment for depression in the United States increased fourfold (and has continued to rise more…
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