David Healy Critiques Gibbons’ Reanalysis of Antidepressants and Suicide

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David Healy critiques the reanalysis by Robert Gibbons of antidepressants and suicidality in children and adolescents that was reported on this page yesterday. He points out many failures of the study, including that factors other than antidepressants account more plausibly for the changes in reported suicide rates, and that Gibbons continues to draw conclusions from his previous study that had been called “astonishing,” “misleading,” and “reckless” by the British Medical Journal and disavowed by one of its authors. 
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Kermit Cole, MFT, founding editor of Mad in America, works in Santa Fe, New Mexico as a couples and family therapist. Inspired by Open Dialogue, he works as part of a team and consults with couples and families that have members identified as patients. His work in residential treatment — largely with severely traumatized and/or "psychotic" clients — led to an appreciation of the power and beauty of systemic philosophy and practice, as the alternative to the prevailing focus on individual pathology. A former film-maker, he has undergraduate and master's degrees in psychology from Harvard University, as well as an MFT degree from the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia. He is a doctoral candidate with the Taos Institute and the Free University of Brussels. You can reach him at [email protected].

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