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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry By Bruce Levine, PhD Modern medicalization destroys traditional ways of dealing with suffering, causes individuals to lose their autonomous coping skills, and weakens communities. madinamerica.com/2024/08/iatrog…

LAST CHANCE! Join us tomorrow, September 7, at 1PM EDT for a talk by @samizdathealth of RxISK: “Why Are Antidepressants So Difficult to Stop? A New Understanding of Drug Dsyregulation Syndrome and How to Manage It”#antidepressants #ssri #brainscience eventbrite.com/e/why-are-anti…

The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful by Alex Conway The victims of psychiatric iatrogenesis believed they were taking a vitamin, only to later realize it was poison. madinamerica.com/2024/09/iatrog…

¿Qué, exactamente, incluye la propuesta de reforma judicial que se está discutiendo hoy en el senado? ¿Por qué ha causado tanta división? La propuesta es compleja e incluye diversos puntos que ameritan un análisis y discusión profundos. #HablémosloConCalma

"Human" by Cat Black "At 17, I told a GP that I was depressed and cried a lot. He diagnosed me with ‘Major Depressive Disorder’ after a 20-minute consultation and prescribed me my first ‘antidepressant’, Venlafaxine. He never asked me why I cried." madinamerica.com/2024/09/human/

Why Are Antidepressants So Difficult to Stop? A New Understanding of Dru... youtu.be/YIlk1My4ZgQ?si… via YouTube

The chemical imbalance theory of depression is fundamental to how we think about depression and emotions now. It is the basis for the idea that they can be treated by drugs (e.g. antidepressants). But it is not supported by evidence, as people had been led to believe.

Antidepressants are not antidepressants! They are a motley collection of chemicals that alter normal brain function in various ways we do not fully understand. To read more: lnk.to/chemicallyimba…

Do antidepressants actually 'work,' and if not why do people think they do? My new book examines the latest evidence lnk.to/chemicallyimba… Flint Books

Why was our umbrella review of serotonin and depression controversial? Perversely, critics said the findings were obvious but also tried to challenge them. In my new book I examine the backlash and what may have motivated it lnk.to/chemicallyimba…

The largest ever study of antidepressants significantly misreported and inflated the effects of antidepressants but neither the medical community nor the media are interested madinamerica.com/2025/01/stard-…

‘Do antidepressants really work?’ In her new book, ⁦Dr Joanna Moncrieff⁩ describes how exposing limitations and harms of these drugs has resulted in attacks and abuse thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

'Brain language has wrongly permeated our conception of ourselves over recent years...Psychiatry must stop reducing people to their brains. Restricting its interventions to psychopharmacology inevitably does so.'

Psychiatrist professor Joanna Moncrieff explains in an interview bit.ly/3DXyJLp that depression is not a physical illness; antidepressants don’t work; the chemical imbalance is a myth; emotional problems cannot be resolved with a pill – they are social issues.

Hi Dr Joanna Moncrieff, are you going to release the audiobook version of your book Chemically Imbalanced?

Voy a estar en la radio el lunes y el martes para que sintonizen radio UNAM!

'The median duration of antidepressant use in the United States was approximately 5 years (260 weeks), while the median trial duration was 8 weeks (IQR: 6-12 weeks)'. Hence, we lack evidence that long-term use of antidepressants is safe or effective medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pleased that my article 'Psychiatric diagnosis as a political device' was chosen for a special edition of Social Theory & Health, available open access for a bit link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Today's The Lancet editorial reflects on my latest book, Chemically Imbalanced, and on the 'creeping medicalisation of a widening array of life problems' Flint Books thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Clip on what a diagnosis of depression really means from my podcast chat with Katinka Newman