“Doctors gamble on a cure”
In recent posts I have shared some of what I have come across in the British Newspaper Archive in relation to a search on the word “serotonin”. I have found … Continue reading “Doctors gamble on a cure”
Tag: Defeat Depression Campaign
“Is this pill a miracle?”
So asked the headline! From the Irish Independent of the 2nd November 1993. Professor Antony Clare, in expressing his concerns about the sensationalism surrounding SSRIs and their promotion, concluded:
“Is this the answer to your problems?”
So asked the headline! From the Irish Independent of the 1st of December 1994. A book by Peter Kramer is mentioned:
Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)
The following editorial was by Dr James Guy Edwards. It was published the year before I started training in psychiatry: The author was Editor of this Text Book: The first … Continue reading Psychiatry in General Practice (the early 1990s)
After the Defeat Depression Campaign
The Defeat Depression Campaign of the 1990s, funded by the pharmaceutical industry, was an “educational campaign” organised by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in association with the Royal College of … Continue reading After the Defeat Depression Campaign
George Dawson MD: “real psychiatry”
Dr George Dawson, MD, writes as a ‘Real Psychiatrist’. I have been a psychiatrist for 25 years but have not felt a need to prefix what I do as “real”. … Continue reading George Dawson MD: “real psychiatry”
The “Defeat Depression Campaign”
I was started on an SSRI antidepressant in the period not long after the “Defeat Depression Campaign,” in my case for “Social Anxiety Disorder”. My generation of psychiatrists were “educated” to … Continue reading The “Defeat Depression Campaign”
Who taught you all that?
I was taught to “Defeat Depression”. I was taught that I was “objective”. The following are passages from Tomas Tranströmer and Albert Camus: