From Efficacy to Non-Efficacy: Lessons from Pediatric Fluoxetine Trials
Modern studies find that fluoxetine has lost its efficacy for children and can now be considered clinically equivalent to placebo.
The VA’s New Prescribing Safety Reforms Are a Start – Here’s What’s Still Missing
On Monday, September 28, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins announced actions the VA will take to address mental health prescribing...
The BMJ Refused to Publish Criticisms in Print of its Highly Misleading Suicide Prevention...
Journal editors should change their practices profoundly. They should welcome academic debate instead of censoring it.
The ODDESSI: Open Dialogue, The Lancet, and a Trojan Horse
DESSI trial results provide a beginning for rethinking psychiatric care
Open Dialogue and ODDESSI: What Have We Learned?
I found Open Dialogue to be a compelling and deeply humane way of working but I also learned how hard it is to implement and sustain.
Clancy’s Lawyer Blew the Chance for Lindsay to Go Free
If there is a second trial for Lindsay, I hope her lawyer puts a psychopharmacologist or neurotoxicologist on the stand.
Open Dialogue Approach Cuts Psychiatric Hospital Use in Major Trial
The ODDESSI trial found that people’s reported recovery, quality of life and satisfaction with services improved with Open Dialogue.
Antidepressants Are Major Drivers of Suicides
For almost 40 years, psychiatric leaders have denied that antidepressants increase suicides despite overwhelming evidence.
A Call for a Paradigm Shift in Schizophrenia Treatment: Reassessing Long-Term Antipsychotic Use and...
The cumulative evidence challenges the assumption that lifelong antipsychotic treatment is necessary or beneficial for most individuals with schizophrenia.
Remembering Dory Previn: An Interview by Peter Sterling in 1974
Dory Previn was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, and poet whose deeply personal work explored her struggles with mental health, including experiences of psychosis. In October 1974, she met with neuroscientist Peter Sterling for a candid conversation about her psychiatric treatment.
From Helplessness to Power: Collective Phantasy and Politics in Contemporary Iran
The cultural psyche evokes historical figures as phantasies to transform helplessness into a desire for revenge and restoration of power.
ADHD UK Cannot Hide the Flawed Science Behind the Diagnosis and Its Treatment
The extensive critique of the biomedical account of ADHD and its treatment with stimulant medication has persisted for decades.
U.S. Antidepressant Drug Labels Still Lag Behind Canada
SSRI labels in Canada warn about the risk of suicide as well as “violence,” including “harm toward others,” without age restrictions.
The Epidemic of Depression Diagnoses and Antidepressant Prescribing
Part of being human is to have difficulties, but they can be handled better if we don’t give people psychiatric diagnoses and drugs.
To the Few Psychiatrists Who Still Believe in ECT: See You in Court
I hope that legal cases like these will encourage psychiatrists to think twice before administering such a potentially damaging treatment.
The Existential Was Never Meant to Be Solved Alone
The sessions had value, but the relief I sought—a true shift in how I relate to the world—felt impossible.
Antidepressants Can Change Peaceful Citizens into Killers
We must warn about the harms of antidepressants and bring people to justice who contribute to the suicides and homicides by lies and medical malpractice.
Absorbing Dark Emotions: Emotional Contagion
Are psychiatrists aware that susceptible people can absorb dark emotions from others when times are tough?
A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant Efficacy Make Their Case
Psychiatric leaders should be in jail because they knowingly spread falsehoods about psychiatric drugs that kill.
In the Lindsay Clancy Case, Polypharmacy Will Be on Trial
Lindsay Clancy worsened while under the influence of psychiatric drugs, and at each step she desperately sought medical help.
What Medicine Does Not Yet Recognize in Psychiatric Tapering
Together, we can create a new way to support patients tapering psychiatric medications and the medically orphaned will finally feel welcomed.
How Can Soccer Coaching Help People Who Hear Voices?
Voice hearing might be conceptualised as reflecting disowned or dissociated aspects of self, often occurring as a result of life events.
Therapy as a Rite of Passage
If we turn toward ourselves with enough sincerity and curiosity, we will see that there is always something wanting to happen next.
Saving the Lone Pelican Soiled in Oil and Psychiatric Patients Soiled in Drugs
We should hold leading psychiatrists and their organisations accountable for the disaster they have created, just like BP was held accountable.
Unshrunk and Beyond—Important Lessons/Bigger Questions
It's hard to be an activist when you’re concerned you are permanently defective and sedated with a cocktail of mind-numbing psych drugs.
