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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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In this blog, he discusses the many studies finding poor long-term results with psychiatric drugs and how the drugs lead to a more chronic course for depression and psychosis. Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Peter Gøtzsche’s book, Critical Psychiatry Textbook.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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The STAR*D study was the third of three major studies conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to determine the effectiveness of drug treatment of depression. The second NIMH depression treatment study , which was published in 1992, reported on the long-term outcome of these drug treated patients.