Tue.Mar 05, 2024

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Study Highlights Difficulty of Antipsychotic Withdrawal

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A new article published in Psychopharmacology finds that insomnia, anxiety, depression, tremor, headache, and dizziness are common symptoms of antipsychotic withdrawal. The research, led by Wilhelm Storck of Toulouse University Hospital, also finds that some antipsychotic drugs are more associated with withdrawal than others. Tiotixene carries the most significant risk of withdrawal, followed by pimozide, quetiapine, thioridazine, and ziprasidone.

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Never Waste a Good Depression: Family Therapy Challenges the Seductive Shortcut of Psychiatric Drugs

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O nce upon a time, a long, long, time ago—in the 1970s and ’80s—there was a great deal of curiosity and an upbeat mood among many in the psychotherapy professions. The field of family therapy had become a global movement, with clinical work and research being conducted all over the world. Much of this work looked at how relationship patterns, especially family dynamics, contributed to what showed up as “symptoms” in one person.