Row breaks out over risk of patients experiencing severe withdrawals

Introduction The purpose of this study was to examine trends in prescribing practices for individuals diagnosed with personality disorders (PD) over a 10-year period in a major metropolitan area in Sw...

Older Australians are less likely to be depressed, yet are more likely to be prescribed antidepressants – why?

By medicalising normal behaviour we’re damaging the young’s wellbeing, Dr Sami Timimi tells Anna Maxted

It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

Finding herself—off of meds.

Psychiatry’s tendency to label non-normative emotions as disorders contributes to affective injustice, distorting emotional self-understanding and deepening inequality.

Who should take them? What are the side-effects? When — and how — should you stop?

The International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal (IIPDW) was created to respond to a glaring need in mental health: to develop ways for helping people withdraw from psychiatric drugs.

For parents worried about their teens' smartphone use, banning phones in schools may seem like an obvious solution. But a study suggests that school phone bans don't produce any positive effects.

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most disastrous outcome, when it comes to falsehoods declared by the psychiatry establi...

Letter: Dr Jennifer Poole says a less medicalised approach using therapists other than consultant psychiatrists would be more effective in the long term

Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.

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A report by the Health Foundation looks at a range of data sources, including self-reported surveys, screening tools and clinical diagnoses and finds more than 10% of working-age people are reporting ...

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Trials in Queensland and Victoria are trying to help GPs with SSRI deprescribing.

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Antidepressant prescribing is at record levels in England, with around one in five adults receiving these medicines for a range of mental health conditions and chronic pain. Prescriptions have...

Here’s how the drugs can affect weight, mood, libido and other functions.

Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, an...