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Causes of High Mortality in People Labeled ‘Mentally Ill’

November 12, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

ANOTHER VIDEO FROM DR. LIEBERMAN On October 28, Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, President of the APA, made another video.  This one is titled An Important Look at Mortality in Mental Illness: A Decade of Data on Psychotropic Drugs, and was made for Medscape.  You can see the transcript at the same site.  Medscape is a web… Continue Reading

The Dangers of SSRI’s

November 7, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

SSRI’S AND SUICIDE Bob Fiddaman has a post up today called MHRA Consultant Calls for Antidepressant Use in Young.  The article highlights some of the dangers associated with SSRI’s, and also describes some of the attempts to suppress or discount the significance of this information. Apparently in 2010, Swedish psychiatrist Göran Isacsson, MD, PhD, published… Continue Reading

The New Holy Grail: Dysfunctional Neural Circuits

October 22, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

There’s a new article on Psychiatric News titled Change, Challenge, and Opportunity: Psychiatry Through the Looking Glass of Research.  It’s dated October 17, and was authored  by Steven Hyman, MD, and Jeffrey Lieberman, MD.  Thanks to Mental Health Law on Twitter for the link. Dr. Lieberman is President of the APA.  Dr. Hyman was Director… Continue Reading

The Tide Has Turned

September 28, 2013 By Phil Hickey |

Those of us on this side of the psychiatric debate have long maintained that there is a link between the so-called antidepressant drugs and the mass murders that have become an increasingly common feature of American society in recent decades. The call for a formal investigation of this link, however, has been consistently resisted, and… Continue Reading

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