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By Snow-Leavis Posted on Jan 29, 2019

Battling and fighting words

The above paragraph comes from an article in yesterday’s Herald. The findings of this poll for MacMillan Cancer Support were widely shared and discussed across the media. MacMillan Cancer Support … Continue reading Battling and fighting words

Categories: UncategorizedTags: #pillshaming, A systematic review into the incidence, Addictive Behaviours, antidepressants, Are guidelines evidence-based, College Values, core values for psychiatrists, Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry, Dementia, Depression, Herald, James Davies, John Read, Joseph Hayes, KCL, Linda Gask, MacMillan Cancer Support, Marion Brown, military metaphors, Poll, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, Sameer Jauhar, severity and duration of antidepressant withdrawal effects, Simon Wessely, SSRI, stigma, suicide, The Mental Elf, The war on antidepressants, UCL, What we can and can't conclude from the systematic review of antidepressant withdrawal effects by Davies and Read, withdrawal

By Snow-Leavis Posted on Nov 29, 2018November 29, 2018

‘Researching, practising, and debating mental health care’

I welcome this comment by Sarb Bajwa, Niall Boyce and Wendy Burn published recently in the the Lancet Psychiatry. This is a matter that I raised with the Royal College … Continue reading ‘Researching, practising, and debating mental health care’

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Neuro-genetic determinism, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Stigma, suicide, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: #pillshaming, @PaulMor64695904, @sectioned, a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, authenticity, BPS, British Psychological Society, Clare Gerada, College Values, Conflict of interest, debate, designed to mislead, Dr Paul Morrison, ethics, extremists, from a moral vacuum, George Dawson, HR Department, Iatrogenic stigma, ill informed, irresponsible, labelled, ladder of participation, Lancet Psychiatry, Let us be kind to one another even when views may differ, Love the card, medical integrity, military metaphors, More respectful debate, most vocal, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Niall Boyce, Pattern language, Paul Morrison, Paul Rees, polarisation, pretend they care, Propaganda, RCPsych, Samei Huda, Sarb Bajwa, Science Media Centre, Simon Wessely, Sunshine legislation, The Mental Elf, the power of language use in psychiatry, the professionals, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Transparency, UCL, values, Vanessa Cameron, Wendy Burn, wholly mince, Window tax

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