Sealing Over Emotional Problems with Medication
By Duncan DOUBLE I’ve never been convinced that any apparent response to antidepressants is more than placebo. Although short-term clinical trials may show a small advantage for active treatment over
‘Antidepressants are like alcohol or cannabis’ | Joanna Moncrieff
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
Deprescribing antidepressants: An integral and neglected component of high-quality prescribing practice
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
CPN Symposium 2025: Recent trends in mental health and their clinical and political significance
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 –
Is mental illness still “in brackets”?
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
GP Monitoring of Those on Antidepressants
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
Mainstream Psychiatry Continues to Minimise Significance of Antidepressant Withdrawal
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
CPN Symposium 2024: Psychosocial approaches to distress
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
On the Neuroplasticity Hypothesis of Antidepressant Action
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).