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Panorama is a BBC TV programme that specialises in investigative journalism. In 2007 they broadcast “Secrets of the drug trials” (see video below), concerning which the BBC said: “Secret emails reveal that the UK’s biggest drug company distorted trial results…
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The pharmaceutical industry pays money to key opinion leaders in UK psychiatry for “promotional activities”. Writing in the British Medical Journal (April 2015), general practitioner Dr. Margaret McCartney, says: “As a student 20 years ago I failed to realise that the sandwiches at…
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“After nearly three decades as a member it is with a mixture of pleasure and disappointment that I submit this letter of resignation from the American Psychiatric Association. The major reason for this action is my belief that I am…
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The abstract of a research article authored by Chris Harrop, John Read, Jim Geekie and Julia Renton – and published in Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry (Volume 20, Issue 3) – says: “Without data, many people may think pharmaceutical companies’ influence over mental health services…
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This book has been written by psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff. The publishers say: “Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs have become some of the biggest blockbusters of the early 21st century, increasingly prescribed not just to people with ‘schizophrenia’ or other severe forms of mental disturbance…
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This is a free online course (U.S-orientated) for counsellors, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health practitioners. Anyone may freely view or download the course materials or take the course. It’s provided by CriticalThinkRx (an educational project at Florida International University), who say…
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Written by Robert Whitaker, the first edition of this book appeared in 2010. The publishers say: “In this astonishing and startling book, award-winning science and history writer Robert Whitaker investigates a medical mystery: Why has the number of disabled mentally…
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The abstract of this article (written by David Cohen and David Jacobs, published in Debates in Neuroscience ) says: “This contribution to the ‘antidepressant debate’ focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the…
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