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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. April McGrath, of Mount Royal University in Calgary, outlined seven strategies for reducing cognitive dissonance.

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

Mad in America

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.