psychoactive drugs

Psychiatry and the Human Condition: Joanna Moncrieff, MD

Author: Editorial 11th December 2020 0 Comments

This interview (conducted by Dr. Awais Aftab) with psychiatrist Joanna Moncrieff is part of a series called “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry“, as published in the Psychiatric Times. Here is an extract: “Aftab: Models of drug action have been an important focus of…
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Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: clinically and scientifically irrelevant

Author: Editorial 21st March 2019 0 Comments

The abstract of this article (written by David Cohen and David Jacobs, published in Debates in Neuroscience ) says: “This contribution to the ‘antidepressant debate’ focuses on the validity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We argue that: (a) made-up psychiatric diagnostic categories destroy the…
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