The Problem of Inflated Efficacy in Psychiatry Journals
Christopher Lane
Diagnosing Long-Term Sexual Dysfunction from SSRIs
This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “With more than 13.2 percent of the adult U.S. population monthly filling prescriptions for SSRI antidepressants , a figure involving at least 45 million Americans, it is disconcerting to…
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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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Shyness: How Normal Behaviour Became a Sickness
The publishers of this book (by Christopher Lane, published 2009) say: “In the 1970s, a small group of leading psychiatrists met behind closed doors and literally rewrote the book on their profession. Revising and greatly expanding ‘The Diagnostic and Statistical…
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