Mad in America
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In a new article in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), 30+ prominent figures in critical psychiatry call on the UK government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 10, 2024
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in Ireland. The reason we say “gobsmacking” is because it’s not something that Irish psychiatrists have said publicly before, although a representative for the College did say in a 2015 media article that people didn’t really believe it anyway.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 25, 2023
In that article , researchers found that in three different studies of neuromodulation for depression, participants’ beliefs that they would improve after using the devices was a significant predictor of outcome, but the actual use of the devices was not, compared to placebo. The psychotherapy groups were not able to be blinded.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
A cognitive-behavioral-therapy program for teens had similarly disappointing results—it proved no better than regular classwork. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post These Teens Got Therapy. The kids are not all right, and frustratingly, we don’t really know how to help them. Then They Got Worse.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
While these doctors make a point of not pathologizing anxious patients, this article is about those doctors who are lacking in this department and who, therefore, cause patients to feel invalidated. For the sake of this article, let us assume that the opposite of pathologization is humanization.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
4 In his 2001 article, Laughren didnt comment on the fact that hits us in the face, that the suicide rate was four times greater on drug than on placebo, which was a statistically significant difference (P = 0.03, my calculation). Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015. 2 Hughes S, Cohen D, Jaggi R.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
In The Great Psychotherapy Debate (2001), Bruce Wampold notes that while therapists tend to believe their therapy techniques—such as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)—are significant, patients believe having someone who understands them and is interested in them is most important.
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