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.

The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism

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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

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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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Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs

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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

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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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Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body

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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

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Why Philosophy Matters?

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Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al

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

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Royal College of Psychiatrists Still not Interested in Discussing Important Evidence on Long-term Antipsychotic...

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Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich

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New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme

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Further Evidence of the Adverse Effects of Antidepressants, and Why These Have Taken so...

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