Psychiatric Drugs
How Drugmakers Influence Our Beliefs About Mental Illness
What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Provide a Long-term Benefit?
Just a pill? How psychiatry pathologises female experience
The Visual Illusion of Efficacy in Psychiatric Drug Trials
Does Pain Always Need a Drug? — Navy Psychologist Mary Vieten, PhD, ABPP
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This short video clip, set within an American context, is an excerpt from the film Medicating Normal :
Abilify commercial: when do possible side-effects greatly outweigh supposed benefits?
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Check out this 90-second advert for an atypical antipsychotic (aripiprazole), touted here under the brand name Abilify as an “add-on” to antidepressant medication. Then ask the obvious question – the same one that applies to a great many prescribed psychiatric…
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