Joanna Moncrieff, MD, Author at Mad In America

Joanna Moncrieff, MD

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Dr. Moncrieff is a Senior Lecturer at University College London. She is one of the founders and co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network. She has written three books: The Bitterest Pills, The Myth of the Chemical Cure, and A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs.

Antidepressants in Pregnancy—Turning a Blind Eye, Again

Joanna Moncrieff, MD & Adam Urato, MD - August 25, 2025 6

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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

Joanna Moncrieff, MD & Martin Plöderl, PhD - July 13, 2024 88

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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 30, 2023 53

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Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper

Joanna Moncrieff, MD & Mark Horowitz - July 28, 2022 38

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The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 26, 2022 42

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Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 2, 2021 39

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How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 6, 2020 69

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What Can We Learn From the Asylum?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - February 29, 2020 79

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What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - December 10, 2019 15

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On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - May 9, 2019 15

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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - April 1, 2019 77

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Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 12, 2018 58

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Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - June 29, 2018 55

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A Commentary on the Finnish Analysis of Outcomes of First Episode Schizophrenia

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - May 5, 2018 33

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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 14, 2018 79

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Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - February 24, 2018 63

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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 1: Reasoning and Meaning

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - January 30, 2018 117

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Are Mental Disorders Brain Diseases ‘In Waiting’?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - November 26, 2017 57

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Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - November 10, 2017 46

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Dualism and the Mind-Body ‘Problem’

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 30, 2017 65

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Knowledge of Mental States and Behaviour: Insights From Heidegger and Others

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 9, 2017 31

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How Should We Think About Mental States? The Contribution of Wittgenstein

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 30, 2017 84

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Why Philosophy Matters?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 22, 2017 32

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Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - May 7, 2017 44

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Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 28, 2017 48

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