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Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide – Sarah Knapton for the Telegraph

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12126146/Antidepressants-can-raise-the-risk-of-suicide-biggest-ever-review-finds.html?utm_content=buffer3d1d3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer We are deeply concerned at this service by the extent of public misinformation and baseless assumptions about the justification for, efficacy/side effects of and withdrawal consequences attached to these drugs – in children and adults. Many GPs appear ill informed and/or disingenuous … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Depression: It’s Not Your Serotonin – Kelly Brogan

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/12/depression-serotonin/ Click on the link for this useful article – and thanks to Mad in America, and Monica Cassani at http://www.beyondmeds.com for steering us to this. The writer does not herself any more use or find useful the language of … Continue reading →

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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 →

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C Shaw ‘Depression is not a Disease but an Indication that Human Consciousness needs to Change’

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/depression-is-not-a-disease-but-an-indication-that-human-consciousness-needs-to-change/ Interesting article dated 12 August from C Shaw. We’re not entirely on board with all of it (for example the reference to ‘depression’ as ‘chemical and emotional imbalance of the brain’ – see Joanna Moncrieff on this subject), but … Continue reading →

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SLS · Colloquia · A Model Consent Form for Psychiatric Drug Treatment: David Cohen & David Jacobs

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://laingsociety.org/colloquia/polofdiagnosis/modelconsent.htm This is a powerful document, first written in 1991 and regularly updated, making its points with facts and a touch of irony. Clients who come to us are often taking or thinking of taking prescription psychiatric drugs. We seldom … Continue reading →

Posted in anti-depressants, communication, healing, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, Palace Gate Counselling Service, psychiatric drugs, psychiatry, research evidence, working with clients | Tagged anti-depressants, Colloquia, consent, David Cohen, David Jacobs, diagnostic model, disorder model, DSM, external locus, internal locus, Joanna Moncrieff, medical model, medicalisation of distress, medicalization of distress, over prescription of psychiatric drugs, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Politics of Diagnosis, psychiatric drugs, psychiatric model, Psychiatry, www.laingsociety.org | Leave a 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

When children are asked, antidepressants are no more effective than placebo: Susan Perry

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

When children are asked, antidepressants are no more effective than placebo: Susan Perry Click on the title for an interesting article by Susan Perry about a meta-analysis by Glen Spielmans, an associate professor of psychology at Metropolitan State University. Susan herself … Continue reading →

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