The beneficial
effects of psychiatric drugs are so small, he says, that it would be possible to stop current use almost completely without causing harm.
Growth Curve, her 2012 series on consciousness and her 2013 article on the
dearth of psychiatric drugs have received awards recognizing editorial excellence.
The wrongness of drone strikes and neuro - weapons research, the
downside of psychiatric drugs and tests for cancer, hype about optogenetics and deep brain stimulation and theories of cosmic creation.
Yet, since the
advent of psychiatric drugs, rates of mental illness have shot up and the supposed imbalances, thought to be the cause of mental illness, have been shown not to exist.
But Allan H Young, a professor of mood disorders at King's College London, and John Crace, a psychiatric patient, argue that research supports the use
of psychiatric drugs which are just as beneficial and efficacious as treatments for other common, complex conditions.
Dr. Finch employs electro - shock therapy and
loads of psychiatric drugs to treat his patients, none of whom seem quite as wacky as this quack (he even has a special Masturbatorium chamber in his home where he relieves his stress).
«Depression is an illness often associated with strong social stigma, causing people to withdraw from their lives, intensifying the emotional symptoms of the illness, like sadness and feelings of worthlessness,» said Rakesh Jain, M.D., M.P.H.,
director of psychiatric drug research, R / D Clinical Research Center, Lake Jackson, Texas.
Siracusa said that the use
of psychiatric drugs in veterinary medicine represents a shift away from poorly regulated «punishment - based behavior modification» such as shock collars for dogs that bark too much.
His scientific and educational work has provided the foundation for modern
criticism of psychiatric drugs and ECT, and leads the way in promoting more caring and effective therapies.
More than half a million people aged above 65 years die from the
use of psychiatric drugs every year in the Western world and the benefits would need to be «colossal» to justify these «immensely harmful» treatments, argues Peter Gøtzsche, professor and director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark.