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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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Researchers have found that cognitive-behavioral therapy without antipsychotics is just as effective for first-episode psychosis—that adding drugs provided no additional improvement. This is consistent with previous studies that found that experiencing childhood trauma , not heritability, was associated with psychosis.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?” among those who were on probation.