Category Archives: Joanna Moncrieff

The Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://cepuk.org/ Follow the link to the website for CEP. In the writer’s view, anyone working in the therapeutic/allied world has an ethical responsibility to be aware of, and evaluate, these arguments. CEP has some seriously intelligent, aware and informed people … Continue reading →

Posted in abuse, accountability, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, CEP, consent, core conditions, cultural questions, diagnoses of bipolar, DSM, empathy, encounter, ethics, external locus, growth, healing, iatrogenic illness, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, MHRA, neuroscience, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, psychosis, regulation, research evidence, Robert Whitaker, schizophrenia, suicide, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, values & principles, violence, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, antidepressants, antidepressants and placebo, antidepressants research, Big Pharma, burying of psychiatric drug trial data, CEP, CEPUK, challenging DSM, chemical imbalance myth, chemical imbalance theory of depression, core conditions, Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, depression, DSM, DSM utility, DSM validity, ICD chapter 5, lack of scientific basis for psychiatry, lack of scientific basis in psychiatry, low cost counselling exeter, Manipulation of psychiatric drug trial data, medicalisation of distress, medicalisation of emotion, medicalisation of feeling, medicalisation of human experience, medicalization of distress, medicalization of emotion, medicalization of feeling, medicalization of human experience, medicating children, mental health disorders, MHRA, MHRA and conflicts of interest, misdiagnoses in psychiatry, misdiagnosis in psychiatry, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, personality change, prescribing psychiatric drugs to children, psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric drug outcomes, psychiatric drug research, psychiatric drug withdrawal, psychiatric drugs and suicide, psychiatric drugs and violence, psychiatric drugs side effects, psychotropic drug withdrawal, psychotropic drugs, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, validity of psychiatric diagnostic system, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | 1 Comment

Neutralising suffering: how the medicalisation of distress obliterates meaning and creates profit – Joanna Moncrieff

Posted on March 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://joannamoncrieff.com/2014/03/11/neutralising-suffering-how-the-medicalisation-of-distress-obliterates-meaning-and-creates-profit/ Important article by Joanna Moncrieff, an M.D. who writes and speaks extensively on this theme. ‘Drugs have now been starkly divided into the good and the bad: the prescribed medication which people must take however awful it makes them … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, compulsive behaviour, criminal justice model, cultural questions, dependence, diagnoses of bipolar, Disconnection, emotions, ethics, external locus, fear, iatrogenic illness, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, neuroscience, paradigm shift, perception, political, power and powerlessness, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, relationship, research evidence, sadness & pain | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, aggression, anti-depressants, antidepressants, anxiety, atypical antipsychotics, benzodiazepine dependence, benzodiazepines, Big Pharma, bipolar disorder, bipolar I disorder, chemical imbalance theory, chemical imbalance theory of depression, competitiveness, consumerism, consumption, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Healy, depression, discontent, disease and disorder model, dissatisfaction, Eli Lilly, Elizabeth Gaskell, emotional suppressants, everyday nerves, existential meaning, existential pain, financial exploitation, grief, grieving, insecurity, Joanna Moncrieff, John Barton, loss, low cost counselling exeter, manic depression, Mark Rapley, marketing of psychiatric drugs, Mary Barton, materialism, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, misery, modern life, mood diaries, mood disorder, myths about psychiatric drugs, opium, pain, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising grief, pathologizing grief, performance management, person centred counselling exeter, poverty, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, prozac, psychiatric drugs, psychoactive substances, recreational drug use, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Seroquel, serotonin theory of depression, Seroxat, social anxiety disorder, social environment, social exploitation, social factors in depression, social inequality, social malaise, SSRI, Stephen Fry, suffering, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, Zopiclone, Zyprexa, Zyprexa papers, Zyprexa side effects | Leave a comment

Joanna Moncrieff: A Critique of Genetic Research on Schizophrenia

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

…or, as she subtitles it, ‘Expensive Castles in the Air’. Click on the link to http://www.beyondmeds.com (thank you, Monica) for a post on this with a link onwards to Joanna’s own site. Beyond Meds offers a vast treasure chest of … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Rogers, cultural questions, genetics, healing, human condition, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, Monica Cassani, organismic experiencing, person centred, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence | Tagged Beyond Meds, Carl Rogers, counselling exeter, extreme mental states, genes for schizophrenia, genetic research, genetic research into schizophrenia, Joanna Moncrieff, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, Monica Cassani, organismic experience, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person-centred, schizophrenia, www.beyondmeds.com | 1 Comment

The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Joanna Moncrieff

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression: Joanna Moncrieff Click on the title for a useful article from Joanna Moncrieff on this subject. As she puts it:- ‘A long overdue debate is raging about the chemical imbalance theory of depression. Having … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-depressants, human condition, Joanna Moncrieff, Mad in America, medical model, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence, sadness & pain | Tagged anti-depressants, antidepressants, chemical imbalance theory of depression, depression, disease model, disorder model, Joanna Moncrieff, Mad in America, medical model, Palace Gate Counselling Service, psychiatric model, SSRIs | 2 Comments