Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder
pharmaceutical industry
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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Celexa, Lexapro & the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine
The illusion of evidence based medicine
Are We Homogenizing The Global View Of A Normal Mind?
This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone
Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq
Dr. Awais Aftab (psychiatrist) has interviewed Jim Gottstein for the Psychiatric Times. Subtitled “A lawyer weighs in on pharmaceutical corruption and involuntary psychiatric care”. The introduction to the interview begins: “The Zyprexa Papers is a fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained and…
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How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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