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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.

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

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

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Lithium and Suicide: What Does the Evidence Show?

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Reasons Not to Believe in Lithium

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

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

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NICE Guidelines for Bipolar Disorder- a Missed Opportunity

Joanna Moncrieff, MD - September 30, 2014 22

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

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The Lessons of Ancient Philosophy

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Continuing the Antidepressant Debate: the Clinical Relevance of Drug-Placebo Differences

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“Psychiatric Prejudice” – A New Way of Silencing Criticism

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‘Angels and Demons’: the Politics of Psychoactive Drugs

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Neutralising Suffering: How the Medicalisation of Distress Obliterates Meaning and Creates Profit

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The Origins of Mental Health Services

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Psychiatry Has its Head in the Sand: Royal College of Psychiatrists Rejects Discussion of...

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Joanna Moncrieff, MD – Short Bio

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The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs

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Long-Term Antipsychotics: Making Sense of the Evidence in the Light of the Dutch Follow-Up...

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Antipsychotics and Brain Shrinkage: An Update

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