Niall McLaren on Critical Psychiatry

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To Drug or not to Drug?

Balancing “5 Myths about Antidepressants.”

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Aug 13, 2024
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As political scientist Wallace Sayre (1905-1972) didn’t quite say: “Academic disputes are the more bitter because so little hangs on them.” Psychiatry is different in that, while disputes can have momentous consequences for every living human, public slugging matches are quite rare. In fact, there is so little debate that the general public could be for…

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