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Psychiatric Ethics

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When psychiatrists conduct "diagnostic" assessments on public figures, they are drawing attention to the fact that psychiatry's "diagnostic" system is more like a children's matching test than a genuine medical nosology. They are drawing attention to the fact that the Emperor has no clothes. And we all know where that leads.

Lancet Editorial Points to “Trouble with Psychiatry Trials”

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While clinical trials make up the ā€œbedrock of evidence-based medicineā€ in other specialties, psychiatry faces a number of both ethical and scientific problems related to its use of randomized control trials. According to a new editorial in The Lancet Psychiatry, the field of psychiatry research has particular problems with ethical issues in recruitment, inaccurate classification systems, and controversial placebo comparisons, and then, once the studies are finished, it often remains unclear what the ā€œoutcomes actually mean for peopleā€™s lives.ā€