evidence-based medicine – A New Vision for Mental Health

The Wild Doctor – Le Médecin Sauvage

Author: Editorial 1st November 2023 0 Comments

This blog post has been published by RxISK (who describe themselves as ‘… a free, independent drug safety website to help you weigh the benefits of any medication against its potential dangers”). It begins: “The French playwright Moliere loved poking fun at…
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clinical drugs trials, effect size, efficacy, evidence-based medicine, Food and Drugs Act, Louis Lasagna, psychiatry, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), RxISK, Tony Hill

Dr. Jason Fung: Financial Conflicts of Interests and the End of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th June 2023 0 Comments

The producers of this 50 minute video say: “‘Evidence-based medicine is actually so corrupt as to be useless or harmful,’ Marcia Angell wrote in 2009. The statement was less a revelation than something many already knew, but it made waves because…
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Dr. Marcia Angell, drug trials, evidence-based medicine, Jason Fung, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, videos

Celexa, Lexapro & the Death of Evidence-Based Medicine

Author: Editorial 28th October 2022 0 Comments

This article has been published on the website of American legal firm Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman. It begins: “‘Oh, what a tangled web we weave. When first we practise to deceive!” From Walter Scott’s epic poem, Marmion. This is the story of…
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antidepressants, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, celexa, citalopram, evidence-based medicine, Lexapro, pharmaceutical industry, SSRIs, USA

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Author: Editorial 17th October 2022 0 Comments

“Evidence based medicine has been corrupted by corporate interests, failed regulation, and commercialisation of academia, argue these authors” This article by Jon Jureidini and Leemon B. McHenry has been published in the British Medical Journal. It begins (with footnotes excluded, but…
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British Medical Journal, clinical drugs trials, evidence-based medicine, Jon Jureidini, Leemon B. McHenry, pharmaceutical industry, Research

The illusion of evidence based medicine

Author: Editorial 12th May 2022 0 Comments

This video from Dr. John Campbell is relevant to mental healthcare, not least in relation to the “evidence” provided to justify the massive prescription of psychotropic drugs:

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clinical drugs trials, evidence-based medicine, pharmaceutical industry, videos

The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research

Author: Editorial 3rd January 2022 0 Comments

This book has been co-authored by Prof. Jon Jureidini and Dr. Leemon McHenry. The publishers say: “An exposé of the corruption of medicine by the pharmaceutical industry at every level, from exploiting the vulnerable destitute for drug testing, through manipulation of…
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antidepressants, books, celexa, citalopram, evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry, paroxetine, Paxil, pharmaceutical industry, Research

ECT is a classic failure of evidence-based medicine

Author: Editorial 7th May 2021 0 Comments

This Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry has hosted a guest-blog by Prof. Richard Bentall, who writes: “In a discipline to which controversy is no stranger, there are few controversies guaranteed to generate as much heat as that surrounding the benefits and costs…
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Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, meta‐analyses, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research, Richard Bentall

Complexity in Primary Care : Understanding its Value

Author: Editorial 5th September 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by Keiran Sweeny. One review says: “Exeter general practitioner Kieran Sweeney presents an elegant ponderosity: that the explanatory model in contemporary medicine needs to be overhauled to accommodate plurality of world views. This book’s strength…
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books, Clients & Patients, complexity, complexity-based practice, evidence-based medicine, General Practitioners, Kieran Sweeney, non-linear paradigm, primare care, qualitative research

Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A Guide for Informed Consent

Author: Editorial 17th April 2019 0 Comments

This book has been written by American psychiatrist Dr. Grace Jackson. The publishers say: “Are patients aware of the fact that pharmacological therapies stress the brain in ways which may prevent or postpone symptomatic and functional recovery? Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: A…
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ADHD, allostatic load, books, coercive psychiatry, depression, evidence-based medicine, Grace Jackson, pharmaceutical drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs)

Clarifying the concepts, epistemology and lexicon of person-centeredness

Author: Editorial 5th December 2018 0 Comments

The full title of this editorial in the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare is “Clarifying the concepts, epistemology and lexicon of person-centeredness: an essential pre-requisite for the effective operationalization of PCH within modern healthcare systems” Written by Andrew Miles and…
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Andrew Miles, Clients & Patients, contextualisation, definitions of person-centered care, disease-centered medicine, empirical research base, European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare, evidence-based medicine, excellence in clinical practice, humanism, Jonathan Elliott Asbridge, leadership, lexicon, methodology, person-centred