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In relation to the potential for psychiatric drugs to cause harm, the psychiatric establishment has kept itself outside the circle of listeners. This, my latest short film, is an artistic … Continue reading outside the circle of listeners
An unedited paragraph from the Newcastle Journal, Wednesday 25 April 1990. The Cumberlege Review of 2020, concluded that, in terms of patient safety, this matter cannot be ignored.
This is from a Scotsman feature, 11 January 1996. I think that Richard makes a very important point. I should say that I am a friend of and correspondent with … Continue reading Richard Holloway on over-certainty
From: Peter J Gordon Sent: 17 May 2019 To: The President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; the former President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists; the Vice-President of the … Continue reading Dead Rat brains implored: it is by living we learn
Earlier this year I was interviewed by Cooper Davis for the Inner Compass Initiative. This interview can be watched here. A few weeks ago, an American who had watched the … Continue reading INNER COMPASS
The recent publication in JAMA Psychiatry: Incidence and Nature of Antidepressant Discontinuation Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis made me feel that I had been here before. Once again, a … Continue reading Déjà vu
This NEWS item by Jacqui Wise has just been published in the BMJ [full text below]. It reports on a Science Media centre briefing on this paper published in JAMA … Continue reading Harmed
A double page advert in last weekend’s Guardian for a Netflix series on the Grenfell Tower disaster. Warning signs can be ignored. Institutions seem to be adept in this.