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Researchers Accuse Lancet Article and British Psychiatrists of Minimising Antidepressants’ Withdrawal Effects

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The current President, Dr Lade Smith, reinforced this irresponsible move back to square one when she retweeted Pariante’s misleading article about the deeply flawed Henssler paper, writing ‘This is a MUST read’ and ‘Fear of ADs may interfere with access to effective treatment. (8 8 June, 2024).

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP Articles

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Jay Amsterdam and I are writing this Open Letter to call for the retraction of the five STAR*D articles published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) because the main findings of these articles are not accurate. 1-5 We are the primary investigators (PIs) of the BMJ Open article that reanalyzed the STAR*D patient-level dataset.

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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

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The New York Times article was the first to weigh in on the topic. Will the book prompt reviews and articles that lend legitimacy and credibility to that counter-narrative? The March 18 article in The New York Times provides the first example of a response to this question. Case closed.

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After MIA Calls for Retraction of STAR*D Article, Study Authors Double Down on the Fraud

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In concert with our September 9 report, we set up a petition on change.org urging the American Journal of Psychiatry to retract the October 2006 article. The post After MIA Calls for Retraction of STAR*D Article, Study Authors Double Down on the Fraud appeared first on Mad In America.

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Half of Those Who Take Antidepressants Are Labeled “Treatment Resistant”

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Psychiatric Drugs “A Crude Form of Chemical Restraint”

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In a new article , mental health nurse Timothy Wand argues for conservative use of psychiatric drugs, for advising patients of the risks of the drugs, and for informing patients there is no known biological cause for mental illness. The article was published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing.

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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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Researchers whose findings counter the conventional wisdomand thus counter vested financial and guild interestsregularly find it difficult to place their articles with a psychiatric journal, and now that difficulty will only grow more pronounced if the new editors of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic take it in a new direction.