Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

Pass the antidepressants, please.

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Niall McLaren
Jan 07, 2025
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Perhaps 2024 will one day be seen as a turning point in psychiatry’s long-term project to drug as many of the population as possible. In 2022, a group headed by Joanna Moncrieff in London published a study on the role of disturbances of the neurotransmitter, 5-HT or serotonin, in depression. They concluded:

The main areas of serotonin research provide no…

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