Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good
pharmaceutical industry
Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription: Overmedicalisation, Flawed Research, and Conflicts of Interest
This book has been written by Michael P. Hengartner. The publishers say: “This book addresses the over-prescribing of antidepressants in people with mostly mild and subthreshold depression. It outlines the steep increase in antidepressant prescription and critically examines the current scientific…
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It’s Time for Us to Stop Being So Defensive About Criticisms of Psychiatry
This article by psychiatrist Dr. Awais Aftab has been published in the Psychiatric Times. It begins: “I read the article “ It’s Time for Us to Stop Waffling About Psychiatry ”2 by Daniel Morehead, MD, with great interest, particularly since it makes frequent references to some of my work in Psychiatric…
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Time for Some Serious Thought about ‘Antidepressants’
The Illusions of Psychiatry
The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research
The Anti-Depressant Era
The Pharmaceutical Industry and the Standardisation of Psychiatric Practice
“Psychiatry has been rather successful at growing business – perhaps even more so than other branches of medicine and even more so since its turn to the body and drugs that can be impossible to stop.” Prof. David Healy has…
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Does Pain Always Need a Drug? — Navy Psychologist Mary Vieten, PhD, ABPP
This short video clip, set within an American context, is an excerpt from the film Medicating Normal :
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
