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“Chemical Imbalance” in 2025: The Revision Guide That Hasn’t Revised (Yet)

Evgeny Legedin 09/12/2025 No Comments

By Evgeny Legedin Last week a bright final-year student asked me to look over the University of Glasgow “Psychiatry Revision Guide” that everyone still uses for finals and OSCE preparation.

Sealing Over Emotional Problems with Medication

Evgeny Legedin 11/11/2025 No Comments

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

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