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.

Drug Treatment in Medicine and Psychiatry: Papering Over Important Differences

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - June 29, 2018

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - May 5, 2018

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 14, 2018

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Challenging the New Hype About Antidepressants

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - February 24, 2018

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - January 30, 2018

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Are Mental Disorders Brain Diseases ‘In Waiting’?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - November 26, 2017

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Why Disease and Illness Are Concepts of the Body

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - November 10, 2017

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Dualism and the Mind-Body ‘Problem’

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 30, 2017

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - October 9, 2017

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 30, 2017

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Why Philosophy Matters?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 22, 2017

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Inconvenient Truths About Antipsychotics: A Response to Goff et al

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - May 7, 2017

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 28, 2017

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - June 30, 2016

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Limits to Medicine: Re-visiting Ivan Illich

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - April 18, 2016

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New Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation And Reduction: the RADAR programme

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 2, 2016

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

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - February 1, 2016

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What Disability Benefit Trends Tell Us About Psychiatric Treatments and the Economy

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - January 28, 2016

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A Square Peg in a Round Hole: The Construction of Depression as a Disease

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - November 2, 2015

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Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - July 27, 2015

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Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - June 30, 2015

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Retreat From the Social: a Review of Hegel’s Theory of Madness

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - March 13, 2015

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What You Need to Know Before Starting a Drug for a Mental Health Problem

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - February 3, 2015

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NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 30, 2014

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A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia – Expensive Castles in the Air

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 1, 2014

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