Anti-depressants: “They’re popped like smarties.”
Are GPs prescribing them too often, or are we getting better at acknowledging depression? This is a 13 minute podcast (2014) from the BBC’s Woman’s Hour radio programme.
Joanna Moncrieff
The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs
This book has been written by psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff. The publishers say: “Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs have become some of the biggest blockbusters of the early 21st century, increasingly prescribed not just to people with ‘schizophrenia’ or other severe forms of mental disturbance…
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Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants
“Antidepressants are not antidepressants – an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants” is an article written by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff (psychiatrist) and published in the BJPsych Bulletin (Jan. 30th 2018) as part of their “Against…
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Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal
Dr. Joan Moncrieff, psychiatrist, writing for the Mad in America website, says: “A few months ago I was surprised to receive a request from an obscure journal of consciousness studies to review a paper. I was surprised because, although it was not immediately…
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Shill Doc Millionaire
From the blog-site of Auntie Psychiatry : Auntie Psychiatry writes: “This cartoon required a lot of background reading and study. I wanted to be as certain as possible about the validity of the phrase ‘Long-term drugging with antipsychotics causes brain shrinkage.’ My starting point…
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The Sedated Society – The Causes and Harms of our Psychiatric Drug Epidemic
The publishers say: “This edited volume provides an answer to a rising public health concern: what drives the over-prescription of psychiatric medication epidemic? Over 15% of the UK public takes a psychiatric medication on any given day, and the numbers…
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