meta‐analyses – A New Vision for Mental Health

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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a coherent system

Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), evidence-based medicine, evidence-based practice, meta‐analyses, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Research, Richard Bentall

Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?

Author: Editorial 2nd October 2019 0 Comments

Dr. Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2011 he wrote : “Antidepressants are supposed to be the magic bullet for curing…
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collaborative practice

antidepressants, Guy Sapirstein, HuffPost, Irving Kirsch, Mad in America, meta‐analyses, placebo effect, psychiatry

A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness

Author: Editorial 21st November 2018 0 Comments

“A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness” is the title of an article by John Norcross and Bruce Wampold that has recently (October 2018) been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology . The article’s abstract says: “In this study, we…
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collaborative practice

Bruce Wampold, Clients & Patients, evidence-based relationships, John Norcross, Journal of Clinical Psychology, meta‐analyses, psychotherapy outcome, responsiveness, therapeutic relationship, treatment adaptations