Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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Niall McLaren
Apr 08, 2025
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Some years ago, I was at a psychiatry conference and sat through a lecture by one of the big beasts of the psychiatric jungle, on his favourite obsession, how everybody should be taking antidepressants. He ended with the usual mantra: “Psychiatry is making enormous progress in understanding the neurobiology of depression. We stand on the cusp of dramati…

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