Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
Robert Whitaker
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s “Medication-Free” Hospital Survive?
Some interesting quotations (Part 6)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) * “Sophisticated and superstitious therapists often wonder…
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Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good
Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End
Psychiatry’s Harmful Conflicts of Interest
Subtitled “Sunshine” legislation is ineffective against widespread financial entanglement, this article from Dr. Christopher Lane is written within an American context and has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “When Congress passed the Physician Payments Sunshine Act in 2010,…
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The Visual Illusion of Efficacy in Psychiatric Drug Trials
Soteria Past, Present, and Future: The Evidence For This Model of Care
In this video (see below) Robert Whitaker – an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history – talks about the evidence base for Soteria houses. The video producers say: “There is a long record of evidence…
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The Case Against Antipsychotics: A Review of Their Long-term Effects
This publication (2016) from the Mad in America Foundation has been written by Robert Whitaker. The author says it is: “… designed to present a succinct review of what science has to say about the long-term effects of antipsychotics. Do they…
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Some interesting quotations ( Part 4)
You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “There is no reason to believe that DSM-5 is safe or scientifically sound … The science simply isn’t there now……A research dead end.” Professor Allen Frances, Chair of DSM…
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