Antidepressants might be largely ineffective, study suggests
placebo effect
Healing Depression without Medication: A Psychiatrist’s Guide to Balancing Mind, Body, and Soul
This book has been written by psychiatrist Dr. Jodie Skillicorn . The publishers say: “An effective, evidence-based guide for preventing, treating, and overcoming depression–without drugs. Antidepressants–the first line in our standard of care for treating depression–may not be much more effective…
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Antidepressants do not work better than a placebo, study finds
Cracked: Why Psychiatry is Doing More Harm Than Good
The Emperor’s New Drugs : Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect
This free course (from Mad in America Continuing Education) includes a lecture video from Prof. Irving Kirsch (Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), together with…
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Blue Dreams: The Science and the Story of the Drugs That Changed Our Minds
Interview with Prof. John Read about the campaign for an independent review of ECT
This video-interview with Prof. John Read was conducted by Dr. Lucy Johnstone as part of the A Disorder For Everyone online festival, held September 18, 2020. It includes a discussion of ECT compared to the placebo effect, the risks of brain…
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The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine
Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?
Back pain and the placebo effect: ‘I’ll keep taking the pills’
Dr. Michael Mosely reports on a BBC Horizon programme titled Can my brain cure my body? Although this programme concerns painkillers, it has obvious relevance to the subject of ‘antidepressants’ and other types of prescribed psychiatric medication: “Could taking a placebo, a pill which contains nothing but…
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