Dr John Read
@ReadReadj
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Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of East London. Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal https://t.co/LRU5M9fsPz. Opinions my own
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Joined February 2014
Check out "Is psychiatric diagnosis scientific and/or helpful? With Prof John Read" @
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RT @danascullyshair: 1/3 How is this in any way, shape or form supposed to help people get better? (Emphasis mine) “Cara spent more than t…
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RT @DrJessTaylor: Whenever I hear psychiatrists talk about how ‘underdiagnosed’ mental disorders are and how terrible it is that more peopl…
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RT @taperclinic: Are ADHD rates really increasing in the U.S., or are we just diagnosing it more? The data shows a sharp rise, but the reas…
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RT @jill_d35: Reading this makes me feel physically sick. So even after @BBCPanorama expose bullying and abuse of young people at #Edenfiel…
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RT @IamProHuman: It’s not in your head—but it’s also not in your genes. After 40 years of research, Dr. Gabor Maté found that childhood tr…
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RT @Psychiatry_Anti: The never-ending cycle of psychiatry🫤 #polydrugged #psychdrugs #PsychiatricInjuryAwareness #perpetualharm #prescribed…
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RT @Mad_In_America: With pharmaceutical companies pushing antipsychotics for off-label use, dementia patients are being put at risk for dev…
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RT @PaulMinotMD: I've taken a couple of months off social media to do some internal rebranding, and to contemplate what I most want to say.…
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RT @Altostrata: Poor psychiatry, plagued by unresolved ethical issues unique to the specialty since its inception, insisting that continued…
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RT @joannamoncrieff: This event is now sold out. Looking forward to my first full talk on my new book.
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RT @CEP_UK: We are very sad that Lord John Montagu has died at the age of 81. A tireless advocate & parliamentary champion for the rights o…
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Another colossal waste of public money. These countless studies never produce anything useful. Scientists find hundreds more genetic risk factors for depression
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What a lame comment. This claim has been made for over 10l years now. After wasting billions nothing useful has emerged. Just the illusion that human distress is best understood through a bio-genetic ideology. False and stigmatising.
“By improving our understanding of the causes of mental illness, we may be able to develop better treatment methods,” says our spokesperson Dr Jana de Villiers in response to a new study on genetic risk factors for depression.
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Or not!
“By improving our understanding of the causes of mental illness, we may be able to develop better treatment methods,” says our spokesperson Dr Jana de Villiers in response to a new study on genetic risk factors for depression.
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RT @buttonslives: Criticizing the biomedical model of mental disorders doesn’t mean denying that biological factors can play a role in some…
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RT @JudithHaire: In a state of terror the last thing you need is Spartan conditions, absent staff, Silence, being forcibly dragged down a c…
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RT @Laura__J__: As a clinician I never quite realised how serious the adverse side effects can be from antidepressants both in withdrawal a…
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I only hope this gruelling documentary won’t be seen as a one off incident. All psych inpatient units, child and adult, fail because of the medical model and coercion they are based on. @MITUKteam @Mad_In_America @LisaTMSA @OlgaOrunciman @IndigoDaya
A painful watch. Many questions: Are other/most psychiatric inpatient units, child and adult, like this? Should the psychiatrists and nurses responsible for this abuse be struck off/prosecuted? Will govt arrange a full review of all psychiatric units?
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