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‘Antidepressants are like alcohol or cannabis’ | Joanna Moncrieff

Evgeny Legedin 16/04/2025 No Comments

Channel 4 News / Ways to Change the World Interview  Date: 16 April 2025 Presenter: Krishnan Guru-Murthy (K.G-M.) Guest: Professor Joanna Moncrieff, Professor of Psychiatry at UCL (J.M.) Introduction and

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Deprescribing antidepressants: An integral and neglected component of high-quality prescribing practice

Evgeny Legedin 02/04/2025 No Comments

The Editorial by Looi and colleagues provided a one-sided view of the need to consider deprescribing antidepressants in Australia. They overlooked clear evidence that at least a third of patients

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CPN Symposium 2025: Recent trends in mental health and their clinical and political significance

Evgeny Legedin 25/03/2025 No Comments

UK Critical Psychiatry Network Symposium 2025 UK Critical Psychiatry Network Symposium Thursday 3rd April 2025 Venue: Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Programme 09:00 Tea/Coffee 09:25 –

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Is mental illness still “in brackets”? 

Evgeny Legedin 21/10/2024 No Comments

Reflections on recent bills for discussion in the Italian Parliament, on the current psychiatrisation of society and on possible remedies By Pino Pini, 11 August 2024. In the current 2024

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Joanna Moncrieff addressing British psychiatrists

Evgeny Legedin 04/07/2024 No Comments

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GP Monitoring of Those on Antidepressants

Evgeny Legedin 26/06/2024 No Comments Leave a comment
By DUNCAN DOUBLE Tony Kendrick, who I have mentioned before (see eg. previous post) is the first author of a paper about antidepressant withdrawal in general practice. It found that
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Mainstream Psychiatry Continues to Minimise Significance of Antidepressant Withdrawal

Evgeny Legedin 11/06/2024 No Comments Leave a comment
By DUNCAN DOUBLE Mainstream psychiatry has minimised the significance of antidepressant withdrawal, as I first pointed out in a BMJ letter in 1997. My complaint then was that the Defeat
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 CPN Symposium 2024: Psychosocial approaches to distress

Evgeny Legedin 25/03/2024 No Comments

UK Critical Psychiatry Network Symposium 2024 UK Critical Psychiatry Network Symposium Thursday 11th April 2024 Venue: University College London Chadwick Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Room: G08 Programme 09:00

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On the Neuroplasticity Hypothesis of Antidepressant Action

Evgeny Legedin 29/02/2024 No Comments Leave a comment
By MARK HOROWITZ On the neuroplasticity hypothesis of antidepressant action – I worked in a neurogenesis laboratory for 4 years and completed my PhD partly on this topic (For SSRIs). 
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Busting Myths about Psychosis & Antipsychotics with Prof Joanna Moncrieff

Evgeny Legedin 29/02/2024 No Comments

In this talk, Prof Joanna Moncrieff (University College London) looks at the evidence behind some common myths relating to psychosis and ‘antipsychotic’ drugs: the idea that psychosis or ‘schizophrenia’ are

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