Background: This paper examines the current status of research on the efficacy and
effectiveness of antidepressants. Methods: This paper reviews four meta-analyses of efficacy …

Background: The possibility that antidepressant drugs, while effectively treating depression,
may worsen its course has received inadequate attention. Method: A review of the literature …

The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before,
from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many …

This article explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted
suggestion that contemporary politics callslife itself'into question. It suggests that recent …

The data surveyed in this book suggest that psychiatric drug treatment is currently
administered on the basis of ahuge collective myth; the myth that psychiatric drugs act by …

The theory that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality or other chemical
imbalance has become widely accepted by the public and is one prominent justification for …

Page 1 Joanna Moncrieff Author of The Myth of º the Chemical Cure THE CBITTEREST The
Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs * Page 2 The Bitterest Pills Page 3 Also by Joanna …

Meta-analyses indicate that antidepressants are superior to placebos in statistical terms, but
the clinical relevance of the differences has not been established. Previous suggestions of …

In a Victorian-era German asylum, seamstress Agnes Richter painstakingly stitched a
mysterious autobiographical text into every inch of the jacket she created from her …

Psychiatry and psychology have constructed a mental health system that does no justice to
the problems it claims to understand and creates multiple problems for its users. Yet the …