Dr John Read
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Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of East London. Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal . Opinions my own
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25th anniversary of one of our early papers on the role of trauma in psychosis.
Less controversial today but services often still not asking about child abuse etc. because of the blinkered medical model of psychiatry and the drug companies.
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Well done psychiatry. Several hundred years after everyone else knew this.
A settled home environment in childhood may have a protective association against depression, finds study of all 1 milion+ individuals born in Denmark between January 1, 1982, and December 31, 2003, and residing in Denmark during childhood.
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ECT depression therapy should be suspended, study suggests
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Our survey of 832 people on antipsychotics, from 30 countries (largest ever) just published. 35% - improved quality of life; 54% - reduced quality of life; 86% - loss of motivation; 85% emotional numbing.
Just out, in CURRENT DRUG SAFETY
(abstract only)
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Professor Kirsch and I are about to publish (June 3) the most comprehensive review of the (lack of) evidence for ECT for depression to date. No ECT vs placebo studies for 35 years.
Professor Irving Kirsch (Harvard) explains power of placebo at Royal Society of Medicine, London. ‘Antidepressants 83% to 100% placebo’.
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ECT depression therapy should be suspended, study suggests
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1. Being depressed is not an illness, no matter how often drug companies & biological psychiatrists say so
2. Chemical imbalance basis for the ‘illness’ claim is now thoroughly debunked.
3.Being depressed is nothing like diabetes
4. Diabetes treatment does not cause brain damage
@johndrummond33
I thought it was easer to see. Depression can be a nasty illness and any treatment might have to taken for a long time. A bit like diabetes, hypertension...
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This idea that “I am a medical doctor so I must be right’ is at the core of the problem here. Patients’ views matter. And the views of non-medical clinicians and researchers matter. And the research itself matters. The arrogance is the problem.
@benzosarebad
Psychiatrists are medical doctors who study medicine for 4 years and then do training for another 4 years. They earn at power with most medical fields.
Anti-Psychiatry folks earn cult following by spreading misinformation without any formal degrees most of the time. So please
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This statement is blatantly false and should lead to disciplinary action from his profession as it is grossly, and dangerously, misleading patients, families and any doctors listening to this nonsense. The research evidence is clear (eg Davies & Read, 2019)
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Important confirmation of what antidepressant users have been saying for years and our online surveys. ‘Antidepressants’ shut down positive as well as negative felling. Should be called ‘antifeelings’ drugs?
@JDaviesPhD
@ClinpsychLucy
@Altostrata
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12 years and 2750 citations later. Proud to have played a part in this breakthrough.
Childhood Adversities Increase the Risk of Psychosis: A Meta-analysis of Patient-Control, Prospective- and Cross-sectional Cohort Studies
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Finally, assaults by staff on people in psychiatric hospitals are subject to the law. This is a historic turning point.
BBC News - Muckamore Abbey: CCTV reveals 1,500 crimes at hospital
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At my GP in East London. A wonderful alternative to the medicalising and drugging of emotional distress. Finally !
@CEP_UK
@JDaviesPhD
@dranneguy
@Altostrata
@joannamoncrieff
@LauraDelano
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“Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia” is a term used by psychiatrists for when their drugs don’t work but they want to pretend the problem lies located in the patient not the drug.
I am sure group size was 3.
ECT is super effective for Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia as a monotherapy and for augmentation of antipsychotics, especially Clozapine.....
For enhancing your knowledge on the subject, refer to my case report.
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Go to to find out
why 40 of us (shock therapy survivors, family members, psychiatrists, psychologists, professors) chose today, anniversary of Hemingway’s death, to write to all Trusts still using ECT, asking them to be evidence-based and suspend its use.
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One doesn’t need your MD or my PhD in Clinical Psychology to understand that telling someone for whom psych drugs don’t work (most people) that it is because they have a special kind of mental illness that is ‘Treatment Resistant’ is, well, a little silly, and very pathologising
@ReadReadj
I don't imagine that a person who isn't a Medical Doctor will understand how the medications work because u actually need Medical School for it
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Just arrived in Rio for three day conference on how to combat epidemic proportions of damage done by psych drugs, with Laura Delano, Bob Whitaker & Irving Kirsch.
The demand for paradigm change is, massive, growing and international. So happy to be a part of it.
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NICE depression guidelines signal move away from medication
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NICE GUIDELINES (UK) FINALLY BECOME EVIDENCE-BASED ON ANTIDEPRESSANTS AFTER YEARS OF RELYING ON OPINIONS OF A FEW PSYCHIATRISTS.
Well done to all concerned in achieving this.
Antidepressants can cause severe side effects that last months via
@MailOnline
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More evidence that anti-psychotic drugs are linked to poor long-term outcomes
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September 19th, 6pm
Public Maudsley Debate at Institute of Psychiatry, London.
I will propose the motion ECT HAS NO PLACE IN MODERN MEDICINE; seconded by the formidable campaigner Sue Cunliffe.
Check the Kings College website next week to register.
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Happy New Year to all who struggled, in 2021, to help make mental health services more humane and helpful. It’s a hard struggle but you sure do meet the best people!
@CEP_UK
@ClinpsychLucy
@MITUKteam
@jf_moore
@joannamoncrieff
@markhoro
@JDaviesPhD
@RaiWaddingham
@Altostrata
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Signing off for the day. Note that in all the personal attacks, labelling us ‘anti-psychiatry’, pretending its all just a battle between professions, recommending a complaint against me etc., nobody could cite a single study showing ECT works better than placebo. After 80 years!
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My Mum was put on antipsychotics last year (93) - without being told - when discharged out of hospital back to her old people's home. When I asked why, they said it was 'routine' to help the old dears cope with the transition !!
Her GP took her off immediately.
Hundreds of nursing home residents taken off anti-psychotic drugs | CBC News
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The complete version of our review (Davies and Read, 2018) showing that about half of people coming off antidepressants expereince withdrawal effects is now online, FREE,
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My Mum was put on ‘anti psychotics’ aged 90 when discharged from hospital (broken shoulder) to her care home, without being told! When I looked at her chart and challenged it I was told ‘We put all the old dears on them when they leave. Helps with transition’
@saffronkulfi1
@ReadReadj
@joannamoncrieff
The FDA put a black box warning for elderly people on all APs but , just the other day, I was told by an assistant living facility owner “well, we HAVE TO put our agitated dementia patients on anti-psychotics!!”
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Largest ever international survey giving people on antipsychotics a direct voice published today
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14% reported purely positive experiences, 28% had mixed experiences, and 58% reported only negative ones (including heavy sedation and withdrawal).
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This is another old myth with no evidence.
Ironically this false idea of psychosis being a ‘neurodegenerative brain disease’ was used for decades to justify early use of antipsychotics.
It is actually the antipsychotics causing the neurodegeneration (eg Ho et al. 2013)
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BBC Radio 4. ALL IN THE MIND. Tomorrow (Tuesday) 9pm.
Myself and one of the bloggers trying to discredit our review on withdrawal from antidepressants. He called withdrawal an ‘atypical’ response. Same minimising as for benzos in the 70s. Hope I represented reality well enough.
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The World Health Organization and the UN call for a move away from psychiatry’s “bio-medical model” and their use of coercion. The paradigm shift to a psycho-social, person-centred, human rights approach is coming.
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@JDaviesPhD
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Great that
@rcpsych
has today updated its guidance on antidepressant withdrawal. We should not have had to lodge a complaint against their Officers to stop them misleading the public. They should have led the changes, not be dragged kicking & screaming.
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My 150+ research papers, since 1997, have now been cited 25,000 times (Google Scholar).
This won’t stop the ‘medical model’ psychiatrists and their followers trying to denigrate me as “anti-psychiatry” “Scientologist” “pill-shamer” etc.
But cause for celebration any way perhaps?
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British Journal of Psychiatry publishes our review showing no evidence ECT works and much evidence causes memory loss/brain damage.
@ClinpsychLucy
@CEP_UK
@PsychRecovery
@CunliffeSue
@peterkinderman
@BentallProf
@Chris_E_Harrop
@lifeafterect
@JDaviesPhD
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WHO and UN call for end to compulsory treatments, blaming psychiatry’s “bio-medical model”
The World Health Organization and the UN Unite on Mental Health | Psychology Today
@LisaTMSA
@UELPsychLondon
@UEL_News
@Mad_In_America
@PsychRecovery
@JDaviesPhD
@peterkinderman
@CunliffeSue
@joannamoncrieff
@dranneguy
@MITUKteam
@IndigoDaya
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Let’s begin by getting rid of the unscientific, stigmatising construct of “schizophrenia” which has ruined the lives of millions for over a century now. To reduce premature mortality let’s try to get prescribing of ‘antipsychotics’ radically reduced.
To truly mark
#WorldSchizophreniaDay
let’s pledge to challenge the prejudices & discrimination associated with psychosis & find ways to reduce premature mortality
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Dr Ellie Cannon and I discuss the overprescribing of antidepressants.
@CEP_UK
@psychgeist52
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@peterkinderman
@MITUKteam
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@Institute_PDW
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@APPGPDD
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We are all STILL waiting for Royal College of Psychiatry to retract the silly claim by Burn and Baldwin that withdrawal from antidepressants lasts only 2 weeks, or to provide some evidence. The ongoing harm to patients from misleading them is enormous. Just say you made a mistake
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Your calm confidence in the truth prevailing in the face of senior members of your chosen ‘profession’ trying to destroy your career, because you are an independent thinker, is inspiring. We stand with you Evgeny. Psychiatry needs you !
Happy to report that my tribunal went well and the MPTS have approved that I can continue to work as a doctor in the NHS.
Video from Sputnik
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How did we get into a situation where one group of people can forcibly administer a drug that shortens life span, causes diabetes, destroys sexual functioning, etc. to another group of people and does not get prosecuted for assault?
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF DEATHS FROM ‘Antipsychotics’ She was unrecognisable’ – families warn of antipsychotic drug effects
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I need to acknowledge my many wonderful colleagues and co-authors, including
@BentallProf
@ClinpsychLucy
@PsychRecovery
@CunliffeSue
@Chris_E_Harrop
@JimvanOs1
@joannamoncrieff
@markhoro
@JDaviesPhD
@RaiWaddingham
@HengartnerMP
@dranneguy
@FilippoVarese
@JacobDiggle
We are proud to announce that two of our professors, John Read and Sam Wass have been included in
@stanford
's prestigious list of top scientists around the world. ✨
The full database can be found here 👉
@ReadReadj
@ProfSamWass
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Dr Hickox just blocked me.
So now she can continue to misrepresent and malign me without me being able to even see her latest distortions and attacks, let alone reply.
Maybe better for my emotional well-being? I have let her viciousness upset me at times.
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More evidence of long term brain damage from ECT.
@PsychRecovery
@CunliffeSue
@PGtzsche1
@peterkinderman
@MITUKteam
Long-term effects of electroconvulsive therapy on brain structure in major depression | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core -
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This massive study actually found that the 14,810 people who had ECT were 5.8 times MORE likely to commit suicide in the following year than the 58,369 people who did not have ECT. (1.3 times more likely after matching etc., which is not statistically significant).
Important ECT study: "Patients who received ECT were at a high risk for suicide. Electroconvulsive therapy did not seem to have a greater effect on decreasing short-term risk for suicide than other types of mental health treatment provided to patients with similar baseline risk."
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More evidence long-term ‘antipsychotics’ cause brain damage (called ‘brain changes’ as usual)
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@Mad_In_Ireland
@joannamoncrieff
@annasylwestrowi
@taperclinic
@ladymcbeth2
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ECT use is declining and causes brain damage, says WHO/UN Report..calling for ban on its use on children
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@MITUKteam
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great article about my wonderful friend and colleague Richard Bentall
@BentallProf
@CEP_UK
@ClinpsychLucy
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
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@joannamoncrieff
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Sorry but this is factually incorrect & you are misleading the public. ‘Antipsychotics’ , especially long term, can shorten life span & reduce brain volume. Our own studies, in peer-reviewed journals, show 80% experience emotional blunting, sedation etc. Do help some, short-term
@benzosarebad
@askdheeraj
@UKtopia_net
@SameiHuda
@ReadReadj
Again sorry for your experience, I wish I could help you. But what you’re doing isn’t helping anyone else. We have the statistics for incidence of side effects and the efficiency of medications. All peer reviewed, evidence based on randomised control trials.
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Excellent analysis of why the medical model of distress is ruining our mental health services
@ClinpsychLucy
@CEP_UK
@peterkinderman
@JDaviesPhD
@psychgeist52
@DrJessTaylor
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The ‘staggering’ rise in childhood anxiety is not a mental health crisis | Letters
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Am at launch of landmark guidance jointly from WHO and UN.
Should mark beginning of end of Psychiatry’s medical model and coercive treatment.
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@dranneguy
@JDaviesPhD
@CEP_UK
@joannamoncrieff
@wdpsychiatry
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Just published.
Largest study ever of causal beliefs of people on antipsychotics (701 people).
76% reported that their mental health problems were the result of life events and circumstances, 17% subscribed to the bio-genetic ‘medical model’ perspective
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Countering 1 of the worst reviews ever, miminising withdrawal effects, but shamefully celebrated by the ‘experts’ in the drug company front
@SMC_London
and
@rcpsych
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Millions, literally, remain in need of help to safely withdraw. Minimising is unethical
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Our 40 page report showing that there is no evidence ECT is better than placebo, and that the 5 meta-analyses that claim otherwise (including last year’s from Allan Young et al at Institute of Psychiatry) are woefully biased, comes out tomorrow. Will provide link to full paper.
Professor Kirsch and I are about to publish (June 3) the most comprehensive review of the (lack of) evidence for ECT for depression to date. No ECT vs placebo studies for 35 years.
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Incorrect. There has never been a single study showing that ECT prevents suicide or saves lives. But this myth has been promulgated by well-intentioned ECT enthusiasts for decades.
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Yet more evidence of the brain damage caused by ‘anti-psychotic’ drugs. They not only reduce brain volume, they also……
Short-term antipsychotic treatment reduces functional connectivity of ...
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We need person-centred mental health care, not more psychiatrists | Letter
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So are the 59% of psychiatrists who agree with my 1997 review showing that child abuse is a cause of psychosis all, like me, ‘anti-psychiatry’ ‘pill-shaming’ extremists?
@MITUKteam
@Mad_In_America
@LisaTMSA
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How drug companies control psychiatric treatment guidelines
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New Study Exposes the Trauma of Involuntary Psychiatric Detention
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Nearly 8000 inquests involving antidepressants
@Altostrata
@Institute_PDW
@Mad_In_America
@markhoro
@joannamoncrieff
@CEP_UK
@jf_moore
@JDaviesPhD
@ClinpsychLucy
@PGtzsche1
@peterkinderman
@MarnieWedlake
@UEL_News
@Antidepressed1
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Now Norway is offering drug-free treatment to people with psychosis
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The atmosphere here since I criticised
@sameerjauhar
for retweeting an article arguing that abused children are genetically predisposed to be abused has become toxic. His defenders have made a range of false, vicious allegations about me and what I said.
I am taking a break.
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via
@psychtimes
Senior psychiatrists pretend psychiatry never espoused the chemical imbalance theory of depression, adopting a Trumpian approach to history.
@joannamoncrieff
@markhoro
@ClinpsychLucy
@HengartnerMP
@dranneguy
@peterkinderman
@Altostrata
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Dr James Davies and I respond to biased, inaccurate blog critique of our review in scientific journal Addictive Behaviors estimating incidence, severity & duration of antidepressant withdrawal effects.
Time to put patients’ health before guild interests?
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“Treatment-resistant” means the drugs don’t work, but cleverly locates the problem in the recipient (often to justify more dangerous treatments, like ECT). Efficacy data suggests most recipients are “treatment resistant”
@JDaviesPhD
@MITUKteam
@Altostrata
@joannamoncrieff
'Treatment resistant depression' is defined as not 'getting better' after trying two different drugs. It turns out that psychotherapy works with such distress, so it's not 'treatment resistant' after all. Perhaps just offer therapy sooner next time...
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‘What harm?’ The documented harms of ‘anti-psychotics’ include tardive dyskinesia (irreversible movement disorder), sedation, emotional blunting, akathisia, massive weight gain, diabetes, and, in long term, reduced life span and decreased brain volume. Do help some, short-term
@benzosarebad
@askdheeraj
@UKtopia_net
@SameiHuda
@ReadReadj
What harm is caused by psychiatrists prescribing anti-psychotics or mood stabilisers to schizophrenics and bipolar patients without which their condition and mental status will decline so much and they will probably k1ll themselves???
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I don’t know what to call an organisation that says (2018) antidepressant withdrawal lasts only two weeks and when challenged removes from its own website their survey showing this to be false. And then lied about why they did that. Evidence based?
@ReadReadj
It is simply wrong to say the College isn’t an evidence-based organisation, and undermines its educational work.
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Have just discovered this is a pseudo-consultation. The form one has to complete does not ask whether one approves of prescribing rights but only asks about different types of prescribing rights one prefers! I have just called for a suspension and investigation.Awaiting response.
For those of you concerned about psychologists being given psychiatric drug prescribing rights in the UK, please do submit your views to the BPS. You only have 2 more days, and your views matter! With record levels of prescribing, do we really need more prescribers?
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Full paper available now.
Easier to read if you ‘download pdf’
Be warned... it’s 40 pages long. We were determined to do the most detailed analysis of the 11 studies and 5 meta-analyses to date.
Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression: A Review of the Quality of ECT versus Sham ECT Trials and Meta-Analyses | Springer Publishing
(Full paper available, free, later today when study is published)
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More evidence ECT causes brain damage (reduced ventricle size), but presented, as usual, as helping to understand how ECT works.
@PsychRecovery
@ClinpsychLucy
@CEP_UK
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@joannamoncrieff
@peterkinderman
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More evidence that genetic factors have been exaggerated by psychiatry’s ‘medical model’
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Yet more confirmation of dangerous adverse effects of ‘antipsychotics’ but instead of calling for less use, and alternatives, we find the usual attempt to locate the problem in the patients, including their genes.
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My latest paper, with friend and colleague Dave Harper
The Power Threat Meaning Framework: Addressing Adversity, Challenging Prejudice and Stigma, and Transforming Services
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Perfect example of all that is wrong with the simplistic, reductionist, unsubstantiated, medical model approach. No mention of life circumstances or events or people’s stated needs or treatment preferences. Astonishing.
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Important PROSPECTIVE confirmation of relationship between adverse childhood experiences and psychosis. Now will mental health services finally provide some trauma based help rather than just label and drug?
@BentallProf
@cep
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
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Important to document psychiatrists’ tactics to discredit critiques of their opinions. Their personal attacks occur everyday on X, including from one already banned for threatening violence.
@JDaviesPhD
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
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Perhaps our difference is that you think everything originates in the brain and I think that a primary function of the brain is to respond to the environment, so I think distress and despair (what you call ‘mental illness’) are caused by social events, which affect the brain.
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Simon Wessley launches his Review of Mental Health Act today. Endorses Community Treatment Orders (psychiatrists’ right to forcibly drug us in our homes under threat of being dragged back to hospital) despite admitting randomised control trials ‘provide no evidence’ they work.
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Great study. 27 years after our first review showing child abuse is a cause of psychosis. How many more studies like this before psychiatry actually starts asking and listening?
Admissions for psychosis following agency-notified child maltreatment ...
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The problem with your argument is that ‘schizophrenia’ has no scientific reliability and no construct or predictive validity. So it is scientifically meaningless. It also creates debilitating stigma and pessimism about recovery. Facts matter.
@ReadReadj
...it means that we are agreed on the outer perimeter.
There is no doubt about clear case of schizophrenia and clear case of bipolar disorder.
By undermining the diagnosis of schizophrenia, one does disservice to people who have the disorder.
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W.H.O. and U.N. Join Calls to Transcend the Medical Model | Psychology Today
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Jay Joseph, and everyone else who has been calling out psychiatry’s myth that ‘schizophrenia’ has a genetic base, was right. Retractions? Apologies & compensation for pessimism caused in millions of families? Don’t hold your breath.
@BentallProf
@jayjoseph22
@Mad_In_America
#Schizophrenia
expert E. F. Torrey hot off the press:
"Not a single gene has been found that can be causally linked to schizophrenia."
I have been saying in publications since 1998 that "genes for schizophrenia" do not exist. Vindication feels great.
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To remind the College of Psychiatry’s rep on Woman’s Hour yesterday of what the research ACTUALLY says. Misleading patients is unethical.
@ClinpsychLucy
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@JDaviesPhD
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You won’t get meaningful change while you call human responses to distressing circumstances ‘mental disorders’ and conceal that the drugs don’t work by blaming “treatment resistant” patients. Listen to the WHO and UN and let the pessimistic, simplistic medical model go, please.
For those who like the status quo in the mental health field, I’m probably not a good person to follow on social media.
For almost 25 years, I have been the Director of the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education. The goal of education is learning, knowledge, and
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Psychiatrist shocked after doubt cast on own mental health
Reminder that the recent complaints by senior psychiatrists, including Dr Huda, about a psychiatrist who challenged orthodox thinking, sent to an NHS employer behind the person’s back, is not new.
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Creating A Mental Illness Called Schizophrenia | Psychology Today
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More evidence of poor outcomes with ‘anti-psychotic’ drugs. But will psychiatrists adjust their behaviour or continue to ignore the principles of evidence-based medicine?
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
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@cep
@JDaviesPhD
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Congratulations to Australian psychiatrists who confirm women more likely to get ECT and, instead of usual explanation of ‘women are more depressed’ report that their finding was regardless of diagnosis and admit “gender bias” on part of ECT psychiatrists
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Thank you Robert for acknowledging that there is no research evidence to support your subjective personal opinion that ECT saves lives. I hope you tell patients and families that.
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@pash22
@Foreman1David
@sjauhar
@theindependent
@MayaOppenheim
@readread
There are no magical cures and none of us are claiming this. But, for someone stuck in a severe depression that has not responded to therapy or drugs, ECT can literally save lives. I don’t have clinical trial evidence for this but I have seen it again and again in my patients.
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17 top psychiatrists: “Although connection between childhood adversity and psychosis noted relatively recently (Read et al. 2005) there is now a well-established association”. So not all dismiss our research as ‘antipsychiatry pseudo-science’. Just a few
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To be published Thursday (Nov 3)
@ClinpsychLucy
@dropthedisorder
@PsychSocChange
@BDPerry
@JDaviesPhD
@dranneguy
@Altostrata
@IndigoDaya
@BentallProf
@JamesScurryUK
@Chris_E_Harrop
@joannamoncrieff
@jf_moore
@CEP_UK
@MarnieWedlake
@UELPsychLondon
@DirkCorstens
@PsychRecovery
Coming soon...A Straight Talking Introduction to the Causes of Mental Health Problems (revised 2nd edition) by John Read + Pete Sanders
What causes mental health problems? Nature or nurture? Brain and biology? Genetic inheritance or social environment?
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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Please try not to use the drug company term, “discontinuation syndrome”, invented by drug companies in 1996, to minimise withdrawal and dependency caused by antidepressants. Thanks.
@Irishbrat1966
@serendpoopity
Many of them have a discontinuation syndrome that is very uncomfortable and very real and should not be ignored!
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Yet another meaningless ECT study with no placebo group. And 68% memory loss called ‘acceptable’ . In teenagers!
@PsychRecovery
@CunliffeSue
@ClinpsychLucy
@lifeafterect
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The government has a moral duty to help those harmed by prescribed dependence forming drugs
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Coverage of my critique, with
@JDaviesPhD
, of the review that grossly minimised antidepressants’ withdrawal effects
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@UEL_News
@Altostrata
@UELPsychLondon
@markhoro
@dranneguy
@joannamoncrieff
via
@MailOnline
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Mail covers our study of misinformation in UK ECT leaflets, and
@LisaTMSA
‘s story, but some psychiatrists still claim it is safe and effective
@Mad_In_America
@MITUKteam
@IndigoDaya
@Chris_E_Harrop
@PsychRecovery
@CunliffeSue
@Jendaffin
via
@MailOnline
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'When we look back in 20 years' time, this will be a turning point' | The Psychologist
Celebrating our successes re antidepressants in 2019. A huge collective effort of experts-by-experience, researchers, & mental health workers, to overcome the deniers.
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BBC Radio 4 just now. Researchers report the emotional blunting from antidepressants that users have described for years. Another small step forward.
@CEP_UK
@JDaviesPhD
@jf_moore
@ClinpsychLucy
@peterkinderman
@joannamoncrieff
@HengartnerMP
@MarnieWedlake
@markhoro
@dranneguy
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Yet another adverse effect of “anti-psychotics” discovered….resistance to antibiotics. Shame that drug companies & psychiatrists don’t do the research BEFORE releasing drugs
@MITUKteam
@cep
@joannamoncrieff
@Altostrata
@JDaviesPhD
@annasylwestrowi
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Still legal to use ECT on the developing brains of our children, despite studies showing most (68%) suffer memory dysfunction as a result.
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