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A Psychiatric Diagnosis is Not a Disease
“Here is the circular logic: How do we know a patient has depression ? Because they have certain symptoms. Why are they having these symptoms? Because they have depression.” This article by Dr. Jonathan Shedler has been published in Psychology Today. It…
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Deprescribing psychotropics with Dr Mark Horowitz
The producers of this Purple Pen Podcast say: “Join Kristin as she talks with Dr Mark Horowitz about how to deprescribe psychotropics like antidepressants, what is known about the causes of depression, what evidence is behind the antidepressants commonly used, what the symptoms…
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Which depression measure is best?
“In the systematic review of 450 clinical trials on unipolar & bipolar depression, we identify 388 outcomes & compares their performance. Which measure performs best?” Eiko Fried reports : “A new paper published today in Lancet Psychiatry, led by Christopher Veal, reports findings from a…
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Open-door policy versus treatment-as-usual in urban psychiatric inpatient wards: a pragmatic, randomised controlled, non-inferiority trial in Norway
The Postmodern Assumptions of the Biopsychosocial Approach
“If PM [postmodernism] is accepted, there are two options: nothing is true-nihilism; or anything can be true-eclecticism.” This commentary by Dr. S. Nassir Ghaemi has been published in Psychiatric Times. It begins: “I appreciate my friend Dr Ron Pies’ thoughtful essay,1 Can We Salvage the Biopsychosocial Model? A Reformulated Biopsychosocial Paradigm Can Be Clinically Useful…
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If Psychiatric Drugs Don’t Cure Disease, What Do They Do?
This 6 minute video from Medicating Normal is an excerpt from a longer interview. It features Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (consultant psychiatrist):
Placebo Effect – not antidepressants – responsible for depression improvement
Dr. Pies and The Chemical Imbalance Deception
Treatment Resistant Depression — A Collective Failure of Imagination
“Unfortunately, there is another major problem with research on TRD: the almost complete absence of psychological treatments. In one systematic overview, a total of 148 different definitions of TRD were collected from the literature. All definitions included at least one failed…
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