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Posts by Robert Whitaker

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Putting JAMA Psychiatry and MIA to the Genetic Test

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Financial Conflicts of Interest Persist in DSM-5-TR Panel Members

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

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2023 in Review: A Paradigm Shift Is Underway

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After MIA Calls for Retraction of STAR*D Article, Study Authors Double Down on the...

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Podcast with Robert Whitaker on the Media

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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

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Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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A History of Pernicious Anemia and Psychiatric Misdiagnosis

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Awais Aftab Responds to the STAR*D Scandal . . . And Digs a New Hole...

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Update on Retracting the Fraudulent STAR*D Results

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The STAR*D Scandal: Scientific Misconduct on a Grand Scale

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FDA Approves Antipsychotic That Provides No Meaningful Benefit But Increases Risk of Death

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ChatGPT Changes Its Mind: Maybe Antidepressants Do More Harm Than Good

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Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?

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What Does ChatGPT Say About MIA?

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With the Launch of Mad in Denmark, a Global Network for Radical Change Grows...

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Answering Awais Aftab: When it Comes to Misleading the Public, Who is the Culprit?

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Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)

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Fernando de Freitas: A “Dear Friend” Who Was a Warrior for Radical Change

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A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s “Medication-Free” Hospital Survive?

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The Failure to Acknowledge Contributions of “Non-Professionals” in Psychiatric Research

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I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor

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Our RCT Fetish: How the “Gold Standard” for Research Has Led to A Societal...

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The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change

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“Holy Shit!” Psychiatry’s Cognitive Dissonance on Display

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Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit

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The Holocaust, Biological Psychiatry and a Shift Toward a More Humane Psychiatry Today

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Road to Nowhere by Talking Heads

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MIA Webinars: Past, Present and Future

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Laura Van Tosh: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor Activist

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Point/Counterpoint: What Is the Importance of Nassir Ghaemi’s Conclusion that Psychiatric Drugs Do Not...

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Is Mad in America Doing More Harm Than Good?

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Thomas Insel Makes A Case for Abolishing Psychiatry

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The Impact the DSM Has Had On All of Us: An interview with Sarah...

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Thomas Jobe: The Legacy of Research He Leaves Behind

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Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End

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For Life: Opera on Psychiatry and Its Drugs

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The Visual Illusion of Efficacy in Psychiatric Drug Trials

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Anatomy of an Industry: Commerce, Payments to Psychiatrists and Betrayal of the Public Good

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The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health

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In Memory of Sandra Escher, Pioneer on Voice-Hearing

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¿Qué Requieren Nuestras Especies para una Vida Sana? Una Entrevista con Peter Sterling

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What Does Our Species Require for a Healthy Life? An Interview with Peter Sterling

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The BBC, Harrow, and a Public Left in the Dark

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A Short History of Tardive Dyskinesia: 65 Years of Drug-Induced Brain Damage That Rolls...

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VICE, MIA and The Movement Against Psychiatry

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An FDA Whistleblower’s Documents: Commerce, Corruption, and Death

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Do Antipsychotics Protect Against Early Death? A Review of the Evidence

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NY Times to Bonnie Burstow: May You Not Rest in Peace

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The Charade of New Drug Approvals for Schizophrenia

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Zel Dolinsky: I Have a Right to “Death With Dignity”

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Medication-Free Treatment in Norway: A Private Hospital Takes Center Stage

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MIA at Eight Years: Are We Fulfilling Our Mission?

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Screening + Drug Treatment = Increase in Veteran Suicides

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Marci Webber Granted a Conditional Discharge

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Is Remaking Psychiatric Care Possible?

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Blaming the “Mentally Ill”: This is Hate Speech

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Twenty Years After Kendra’s Law: The Case Against AOT

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The New Yorker Peers into the Psychiatric Abyss… And Loses Its Nerve

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MIA Update: Our Parent Resources Initiative and More

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The Cochrane Collaboration Has Failed Us All

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Adolescent Suicide and The Black Box Warning: STAT Gets It All Wrong

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Suicide in the Age of Prozac

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Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychiatric Drugs Tell of Harm Done

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A Tale of Two Studies

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Do Antidepressants Work? A People’s Review of the Evidence

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Soteria Israel: A Vision from the Past is a Blueprint for the Future

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Thou Shall Not Criticize Our Drugs

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MIA RADIO: Expanding the Audience for “Critical Psychiatry” Perspectives

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Psychiatry Defends Its Antipsychotics: A Case Study of Institutional Corruption

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Our Letter to Lancet Psychiatry

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Lancet Psychiatry Needs to Retract the ADHD-Enigma Study

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The Door to a Revolution in Psychiatry Cracks Open

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MIA in the Year 2017

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INTAR 2016: A Global Call for a New Paradigm In Psychiatry

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Confessions of a Trespasser

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The Case Against Antipsychotics

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The Evidence-Based Mind of Psychiatry on Display

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Report from the Parliament: Can Psychiatry At Least Be Curious?

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Making the Case Against Antidepressants in Parliament

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Medical Science Argues Against Forced Treatment Too

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Dr. Pies and Dr. Frances Make a Compelling Case that Their Profession is Doing...

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We Need Your Help!

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Me, Allen Frances, and Climbing Out of a Pigeonhole

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A New Year’s Letter to Our Readers: The Past, Present, and Future of MIA

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Timberrr! Psychiatry’s Evidence Base For Antipsychotics Comes Crashing to the Ground

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Ronald Pies Doubles Down (And Why We Should Care)

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Reflections on a Beautiful Mind

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Psychiatry Through the Lens of Institutional Corruption

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A Challenge to Dr. Lieberman

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Shrinks: A Self-Portrait of a Profession

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Disability and Mood Disorders in the Age of Prozac

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MIA Continuing Education: Help Us Get The Word Out

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A Debate Between Allen Frances and Robert Whitaker

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MIA’s New Store & More

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Finnish Psychologist Fired for Speaking Critically of Antidepressants

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Shame of A Nation

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The Fat Lady Has Sung

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Launching MIA Reports

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My Reply to Pete Earley: Do I Have Blood On My Hands?

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Support MIA

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Harrow + Wunderink + Open Dialogue = An Evidence-based Mandate for A New Standard...

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The Vatican, Ritalin, and a Canadian Study of Long-term ADHD Outcomes

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Do Antipsychotics Worsen Long-term Schizophrenia Outcomes? Martin Harrow Explores the Question.

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Thoughts About David Oaks

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Dear Dr. Torrey: Please, Stop The Lies!

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More Evidence That Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

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The Triumph of Bad Science

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The NY Times: When Stimulants Are Bad

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Black Hats, White Hats, and Financial Reckonings

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E. Fuller Torrey’s Review of Anatomy of an Epidemic: What Does It Reveal About...

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Guidelines for a Thoughtful Discussion

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Interpreting Harrow’s 20-Year Results: Are the Drugs to Blame?

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The Real Suicide Data from the TADS Study Comes to Light

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The Taint of Eugenics In NIMH-Funded Research Today

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Biological Models of Mental Illness May Increase Stigma

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Psych Drugs Leading Cause of Adverse Events in Canadian Children

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Bipolar Office Visits Soar

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One in Five Americans Uses a Psychiatric Drug

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SSRIs Increase Risk of Pulmonary Hypertension In Newborns

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Rethinking Brain Research In Psychiatry

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Nicotine Replacement Therapies Fail to Provide a Lasting Benefit

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John McCarthy, Founder of Mad Pride Ireland, Dies at 61

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Emigrating at Young Age Linked to Psychosis in Adulthood

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No Evidence that Antidepressants Are Effective for Mild Depression

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Undetected Diabetes Found Frequently In Adults Taking Antipsychotics

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Both Antidepressants and Talk Therapy Fail to Beat Placebo 

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Published Meta-Analyses of Drugs Are Inaccurate Because of Missing Data

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Why Trials of Antidepressants Often Fail 

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Maybe Troubled Youth Aren’t Bipolar After All

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In the U.K., Doctors Sued For Creating Benzodiazepine Addicts

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Calendar of Events

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Your Meds

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Mad Media Content

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Robert Whitaker – Short Bio

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Psychiatric Hospitalization of Children Soars

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Reviews

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Interviews

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Lives Restored

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Lobotomy Remembered as a Treatment for Pain

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In Their Own Voice

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Answering the Critics: William Glazer, in Behavioral Healthcare Magazine

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Robert Whitaker – Long Bio

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Cognitive Therapy Found Effective in Unmedicated Psychotic Patients . . . And Other News

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Answering the Critics: Massachusetts General Hospital Grand Rounds

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Answering the Critics: Let’s Roll the Tape (Again)

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Ed Pigott’s Bio

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Bibliography of STAR*D Articles

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A Research Timeline for Antipsychotic Drugs

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The Evidence for Antipsychotics

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Antidepressants/Depression

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Psychotropics/Child and Adolescent Disorders

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Mad In America’s Chapters

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Answering the Critics: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog

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Antipsychotics and Chronic Illness

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Polypharmacy/Bipolar illness

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Letters to editor

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Outcomes in the Era of Atypical Antipsychotics

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Antipsychotics and Progressive Brain Dysfunction

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Benzodiazepines/Anxiety

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Early Death Associated With Antipsychotics

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Modern Experimental Programs Producing Better Outcomes

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Solutions

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A Rorschach Test for Psych Drugs

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Anatomy of an Epidemic Down Under: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Disabling...

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In Defense of Psychiatric Medications, Part Two

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The New York Times’ Defense of Antidepressants

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Now Antidepressant-Induced Chronic Depression Has a Name: Tardive Dysphoria

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Drug Companies ‘Just Say No’ to Psych Drugs

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Summing Up the NIMH Trials: Evidence of an Effective Paradigm of Care?

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After 25 Posts on this Website, Dr. Mark Foster is Terminated by his Employer

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Should the Medical Literature Be Cleansed of All STAR*D Articles?

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Anatomy of an Epidemic wins investigative journalism award

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Rethinking Mental Health Care: The Story of the Oregon Symposium and the Foundation that...

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Andreasen Drops a Bombshell: Antipsychotics Shrink the Brain

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Speaking at MGH Grand Rounds, and More

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Psychiatric Drugs and Violence: A Review of FDA Data Finds A Link

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Updates on the Epidemic

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Do Psychiatric Drugs Impair Normal Brain Development?

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The GlaxoSmithKline Ghostwriting Documents, Part Two

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A Ghostwritten Psychiatric Textbook Hints at a Much Larger Problem

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Volunteers for Psychotherapy Is A Finalist for International Award

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The Successful Creation of a Societal Delusion . . . and the Increase in...

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Tardive Dyskinesia in the Atypicals Era: Is The Risk Any Less Today Than Before?

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New Rat Study: SSRIs Markedly Deplete Brain Serotonin

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Do Antidepressants Worsen the Long-term Course of Depression? Giovanni Fava Pushes the Debate Forward.

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SAMHSA, Alternatives, and A Psychiatrist’s Despair over the State of American Science

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SAMHSA, Alternatives, and the Story of an Opportunity Lost

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And Now For the Rest of the Story

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The STAR*D Scandal: A New Paper Sums It All Up

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Charlie Rose and the Mentally Ill Brain

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News Roundup From June

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”Broken Brains” and “Beautiful Minds”

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Medicating Children: A “Whistleblower’s Lawsuit” Raises a Novel Legal Question

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Yet Another Disappointment: First Catie, and Now the 12-Month Results from TEOSS

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Update on the Star*D Report

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A Schizophrenia Mystery Solved?

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Time Magazine and Anatomy of an Epidemic

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Hypotheses, Scientific Evidence, and On Being Compared to an AIDS Denier

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Story-Telling in the Age of Corporate Medicine (or more on being called an AIDS...

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Antipsychotics/Schizophrenia

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Fact Checking the New Yorker, Part Two

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Fact Checking the New Yorker

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