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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
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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention
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Martin Plöderl, PhD
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What the RADAR Trial Tells Us About Antipsychotic Reduction and Discontinuation
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September 30, 2023
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Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper
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Mark Horowitz
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July 28, 2022
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The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism
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March 26, 2022
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Psychedelics—The New Psychiatric Craze
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September 2, 2021
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How Little We Really Know About Psychiatric Drugs
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October 6, 2020
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What Can We Learn From the Asylum?
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What Does ‘Relapse’ Mean? Definitions Used in Antipsychotic Trials Are Unclear
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On Human Nature and Its Implications for the Mind-Body Problem
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May 9, 2019
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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs
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April 1, 2019
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Results of World’s Largest Antidepressant Study Look Dismal
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Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences
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June 29, 2018
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A Commentary on the Finnish Analysis of Outcomes of First Episode Schizophrenia
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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 2: The Social Problem
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March 14, 2018
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Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants
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So What is Mental Disorder? Part 1: Reasoning and Meaning
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Are Mental Disorders Brain Diseases ‘In Waiting’?
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November 26, 2017
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Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body
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November 10, 2017
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Dualism and the Mind-Body ‘Problem’
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October 30, 2017
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Knowledge of Mental States and Behaviour: Insights From Heidegger and Others
Joanna Moncrieff, MD
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October 9, 2017
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How Should We Think About Mental States? The Contribution of Wittgenstein
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September 30, 2017
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Why Philosophy Matters?
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September 22, 2017
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Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al
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May 7, 2017
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Why I Don’t Like the Idea that Mental Disorder is a Disease
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March 28, 2017
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