Tag Archives: Psychiatric medication

Dr Joanna Moncrieff – The Myth of The Chemical Cure


From BBC (uk) radio 2 Today Programme, 2009 Dr Joanna Moncrieff interview …. Taking a pill to treat depression is widely believed to work by reversing a chemical imbalance. But in this week’s Scrubbing Up health column, Dr Joanna Moncrieff, of … Continue reading

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Why one in four women is on psych meds


read it at… http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/21/one-in-four-women-psych-meds

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Despondex


from the Onion News Network comes a report on an important new breakthrough drug aimed to cure the unsufferable cheeriness experienced by millions of N Americans. The report includes the usual rebuttal by some Doctor who says we can get the … Continue reading

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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? Part 2


The Illusions of Psychiatry Article by  Marcia Angell in New York Review of Books Second part of an article on three books examining modern psychiaty’s reliance on unproven science, unscientific diagnoses and unproven medications to  treat the  increasingly large portion of  the human condition that it … Continue reading

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Anatomy of an Epidemic


Robert Whitaker asks some telling questions like: Q. if psychiatric medications work so well then why is it that after decades of using them we have 1) so many more (not less) people with mental diagnoses, and 2) rapidly growing numbers of … Continue reading

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