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No Explanation, Just Labels: Critical Psychiatry Network Letter to the Guardian on the Dangers of Diagnostic Expansion

Evgeny Legedin 25/02/2026 No Comments

By Critical Psychiatry Network This letter, signed by members of the Critical Psychiatry Network, GPs and doctors from other specialities was initially submitted to the Guardian and subsequently to the

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The Best Kept Secret in Psychiatry

Evgeny Legedin 04/02/2026 No Comments

By Maria Grazia Turri This insightful article, originally from Asylum Magazine, delves into the shortcomings of traditional psychiatric assessments through a compelling case study and innovative clinic experience. Maria Grazia

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The Mental Health Industrial Complex: Absorbing Distress in Decaying Capitalism

Evgeny Legedin 28/01/2026 No Comments

By Sami Timimi In this original essay, child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sami Timimi applies a Marxist lens to the escalating mental health crisis in the West. He argues

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New Meta-Analysis on Depression Pills Deprescribing: Promises and Pitfalls

Evgeny Legedin 12/12/2025 No Comments

By Evgeny Legedin The recent publication in The Lancet Psychiatry (2026; 13: 24-36)1 of a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Debora Zaccolotti and colleagues has sparked interest in the

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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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