Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care

Withdrawing from SSRI antidepressants: advice for primary care was published in British Journal of General Practice in March 2023. The authors: Emilia G Palmer, Sangeetha Sornalingam, Lisa Page and Maxwell … Continue reading Withdrawing from antidepressants: advice for primary care

“How should psychiatry respond to its critics?”

The Key Note Lecture for the 2023 International Congress of the Royal College of Psychiatrists is to be given by Sir Robin Murray. The Congress programme gives this outline of … Continue reading “How should psychiatry respond to its critics?”

‘A generation in crisis’

The following article featured in the Scottish Sunday Mail, 4 December 2022: The article continues: The pandemic also had a profound effect on youngsters who were forced to spend almost … Continue reading ‘A generation in crisis’

Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]

On the 25 February 2018 the following letter by Professor Wendy Burn, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists [RCPsych] and Professor David Baldwin, Chairman of the RCPsych Psychopharmacology Committee, … Continue reading Depression: pills and dependence [a timeline following a letter in the Times]