Episode 04: Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London, Joanna Moncrieff, is co-founder of the Critical Psychiatry Network based in the UK and has advocated for far less use of psychiatric drugs for decades, in scientific articles and books. Peter C Gøtzsche discusses with Professor Joanna Moncrieff what critical psychiatry is about; why psychiatric drugs are much overused and based on false premises; and how the disease centred and the drug centred model for psychiatric drugs can help explain the predicament we are in.
Documentation:
Moncrieff J. The bitterest pills: the troubling story of antipsychotic drugs. Palgrave Macmillan; 2013.
Moncrieff J. The myth of the chemical cure: a critique of psychiatric drug treatment. Palgrave Macmillan; 2007.
Moncrieff J. A straight talking introduction to psychiatric drugs. PCCS Books; 2013.
Demasi M, Gøtzsche PC. Presentation of benefits and harms of antidepressants on websites: cross sectional study. Int J Risk Saf Med 2020;31:53-65.
Gøtzsche PC. The Norwegian Psychiatric Association propagates dangerous misinformation about their specialty. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2023; Aug 30.
Coupland C, Dhiman P, Morriss R, et al. Antidepressant use and risk of adverse outcomes in older people: population based cohort study. BMJ 2011;343:d4551.
Whitaker R. Anatomy of an epidemic, 2nd edition. New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015.
Horowitz MA, Taylor D. Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate withdrawal symptoms. Lancet Psychiatry 2019;6:538-46.
Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, et al. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Mol Psychiatry 2022; July 20.
Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, et al. The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported? Mol Psychiatry 2023; June 23.
Gøtzsche PC. Critical psychiatry textbook. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2022. Freely available.
