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By Hole Ousia Posted on December 31, 2019February 23, 2023

“The chemical imbalance idea was never actually held by psychiatry”

29 December 2019: Jesse Luke, a writer, researcher and cancer patient, started a social media thread with the following statement: “The ‘chemical balance’ idea was never actually held by psychiatry. … Continue reading “The chemical imbalance idea was never actually held by psychiatry”

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Depression, History of medicine, Medical Education, Neuro-genetic determinism, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, PsychiatryTags: antidepressant, antidepressants, antipsychiatry, Antiquary, chemical balance, chemical imbalance, despicable, Dr Annie Hickox, Dr George Dawson MD, Dr Joe Pierre, Dr Jonathan Stea, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Ronald Pies, Dr Samei Huda, George Orwell, Good debate is respectful and constructive, Hole Ousia, I am left troubled that powerful voices are attempting to re-write the past, It’s patently dishonest to label a discussion about #prescribedharm as antipsychiatry.”, Jesse Luke, Jesse Luke: “It’s truly Sisyphean but necessary when dangerous ideas are being spread”, let's fix the chemical imbalance first, mutabilty of the past, Nineteen eighty-four, Peter Gordon, Prescribed harm, President, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Professor Wendy Burn: "It hasn’t actually been disproven, Psychiatry, RCPsych, rebel antiquary, Ronald Pies, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Social maverick, social media, SSRI, SSRIs, The Antiquary, The Chemical Imbalance, The chemical imbalance idea was never actually held by psychiatry, the old idea that antidepressants correct a chemical imbalance in the brain is an over-simplification and we do not support this view, The Rebel Antiquary, The Royal College of Psychiatrists [3 August 2017], this language of otherness and disdain does nothing to advance scientific understanding, twitter, we won’t know till we can actually measure the chemicals in the brain”

By Hole Ousia Posted on December 29, 2019February 23, 2023

Can you hear the people sing?

In “How the world thinks” Julian Baggini says “there is a temptation to believe that objective knowledge transcends all points of view, all concepts, all language. Rather than objective knowledge … Continue reading Can you hear the people sing?

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: Antiquary, Bridge of Allan, Can you hear the people sing?, clock, Clock Dance, clockmaker, divorce, Dr George Dawson MD, Dr Peter Gordon, Dr Peter J Gordon, feeling, For the Greeks, Freedom, future, George Dawson, George Dawson MD, Greeks, Guy Garvey, Hole Ousia, How the World thinks, humanities, I had a project as a little boy, Jesse Luke, John Grant, Julian Baggini, Language, Mossgrove, Mr Benn, music, Nagel, natural science, natural sciences, NHS, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Scotland, number, numbers, past, Peter Gordon, philosophical journey, philosophy, present, Rachel Fiona Gordon, Real Psychiatrist, Real Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Samei Huda, Smyllum Park, Social maverick, St John's Hospital, The Antiquary, The Medical Model in Mental Health, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, there is a temptation to believe that objective knowledge transcends all points of view, Thomas Nagel, time, time passes listen, Time to abandon the subjective–objective divide?, Two Cultures, View from nowhere, view from the bench

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