pharmaceutical industry – A New Vision for Mental Health

What did the scientific literature learn from internal company documents in the pharmaceutical industry? A scoping review

Author: Editorial 24th May 2023 0 Comments

This review by Marc-André Gagnon and Miaoran Dong has been published in Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods. The abstract says: “Objective To identify all scientific papers that used internal industry documents in the pharmaceutical sector and analyze what and how the…
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Cochrane Evidence Synthesis and Methods, drug trials, Marc-André Gagnon, Miaoran Dong, pharmaceutical industry, Research

Doctor knows best, poisoned chalices, and beings on drugs: Young people’s accounts of getting the diagnosis of bipolar disorder

Author: Editorial 21st November 2022 0 Comments

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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antidepressants, biomedical model, bipolar, diagnostic labelling, JP Marshall, Mad in the UK, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Book Review: ‘Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription’ by Michael P. Hengartner

Author: Editorial 16th November 2022 0 Comments

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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antidepressants, BJGP Life, depression, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, DSM, evidence-based practice, Marion Brown, Michael Hengartner, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Celexa, Lexapro & the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th October 2022 0 Comments

This article has been published on the website of American legal firm Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman. It begins: “‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive!” From Walter Scott’s epic poem, Marmion. This is the story of…
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antidepressants, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, celexa, citalopram, evidence-based medicine, Lexapro, pharmaceutical industry, SSRIs, USA

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Author: Editorial 17th October 2022 0 Comments

“Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia, argue these authors” This article by Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry has been published in the British Medical Journal. It begins (with footnotes excluded, but…
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British Medical Journal, clinical drugs trials, evidence-based medicine, Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, Research

Are We Homogenizing The Global View Of A Normal Mind?

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2022 0 Comments

This article from 2013 comes from P. Murali Doraiswamy (Professor of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Division, Duke University Health System) and has been published by the Edge. It begins: “Should we worry about the consequences of exporting America’s view of an unhealthy…
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Culture & Society, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, Edge, P. Murali Doraiswamy, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, USA

This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone

Author: Editorial 29th August 2022 0 Comments

“Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.” This article by Matt Richtel has been published in the New York Times. It begins: “One morning in the…
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antidepressants, children and adolescents, Matt Richtel, New York Times, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Renae Smith

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs

Author: Editorial 18th August 2022 0 Comments

This book (with relevance to the psychiatry’s prescribing of psychotropic drugs on a massive scale) has been written by investigative journalist Melody Petersen. The publishers say: “In an odyssey into the dark side of American medicine, an award-winning journalist reveals how…
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books, marketing, Melody Petersen, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, USA

The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq

Author: Editorial 5th August 2022 0 Comments

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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Awais Aftab, Ely Lilly, Jim Gottstein, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Times, psychiatry, USA, zyprexa

How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance

Author: Editorial 27th July 2022 0 Comments

This article is from psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff. It begins: “For decades people have been told that depression is caused by a serotonin deficiency. This was the rationale behind the introduction of the SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) antidepressants in the…
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antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory, depression, Joanna Moncrieff, Molecular Psychiatry, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, serotonin, tapering