The importance of empathic listening for making meaning of distress
psychiatry
Answering Awais Aftab: When it Comes to Misleading the Public, Who is the Culprit?
This article by Robert Whitaker has been published by Mad in America. It begins: “On March 27, Mad in America published a review of a ‘viewpoint ‘ in JAMA Psychiatry that told of how psychiatry did not have evidence of ‘successful outcomes.’ This prompted psychiatrist Awais…
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Services for People Withdrawing From Antidepressants
“New study documents what antidepressant users need to help them come off safely.” Key Points: One in four people will experience severe withdrawal symptoms when trying to reduce or come off antidepressants. There are no specialized services to support people…
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part Three)
Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook . In this blog, he discusses the lack of evidence for benefit, and the evidence of harms, of psychosis drugs used for early…
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The Future Is Political and Transdisciplinary
Unconventional Views About Mental Health
After skool: Mark Horowitz – common misconceptions about depression & antidepressants
Dr. Mark Horowitz is a training psychiatrist and Clinical Research Fellow in Psychiatry at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. He has a doctorate in the neurobiology of depression and the action of antidepressants from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s…
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Moving Beyond Psychiatric Diagnosis: Lucy Johnstone, PsyD
‘Thirty years on, I still have symptoms from taking benzodiazepines’
Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
