The Problem of Inflated Efficacy in Psychiatry Journals
Michael Hengartner
Estimating Risk of Antidepressant Withdrawal from a Review of Published Data
Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner
This book review by Marion Brown has been published by BJGP Life (which publishes comment and opinion on research and clinical care for the primary care community): “Hengartner begins ‘Over my academic career, I went into different stages of belief and disbelief.’…
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Methodological Flaws, Conflicts of Interest, and Scientific Fallacies: Implications for the Evaluation of Antidepressants’ Efficacy and Harm
This paper by Michael Hengartner has been published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background In current psychiatric practice, antidepressants are widely and with ever-increasing frequency prescribed to patients. However, several scientific biases obfuscate estimates of antidepressants’ efficacy…
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Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest
This book has been written by Michael P. Hengartner. The publishers say: “This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific…
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