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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

Antidepressants and autism: David Kupelian

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Antidepressants and autism: David Kupelian Must read for parents, parents to be, therapists….well, all of us really. Thanks, Brent Dean Robbins for this interesting post on Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32’s Facebook page. Click on the title to go … Continue reading →

Posted in Diagnoses of autism, medical model, neuroscience, parenting, pregnancy, psychiatric drugs | Tagged Adam Urato, antidepressants, antidepressants and autism, ASD, autism, autism research, biological mechanisms, David Healy, David Kupelian, Kaiser Permanente, Lisa Croen, neurotransmitters, parenting, Pharmageddon, serotonin, SSRIs, use of antidepressants in pregnancy | Leave a comment

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

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