Critical psychiatry textbook
Publisher: scientificfreedom.dk
Published: 2022
Place of publication: dk
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9788797229187
Copyright date: 2022
First sentence: 1 Why a critical textbook of psychiatry?

Students of medicine, psychology and psychiatry, and allied health professions, learn about psy-
chiatry by reading psychiatric textbooks.
Table of contents: title: .; title: Contents; title: 1 Why a critical textbook of psychiatry? .............................................................................................. 4; title: 2 Are psychiatric disorders mainly genetic or environmental? ........................................................... 8; title: Schizophrenia and related disorders.............................................................................................. 11; title: Affective disorders ......................................................................................................................... 13; title: ADHD and the fallibility of observational studies .......................................................................... 14; title: 3 Are psychiatric disorders detectable in a brain scan? .................................................................... 18; title: Schizophrenia and related disorders.............................................................................................. 19; title: Affective disorders ......................................................................................................................... 19; title: ADHD .............................................................................................................................................. 20; title: Anxiety disorders ............................................................................................................................ 21; title: Brain scan studies are highly unreliable ......................................................................................... 21; title: 4 Are psychiatric disorders caused by a chemical imbalance? .......................................................... 24; title: Schizophrenia and related disorders.............................................................................................. 24; title: Affective disorders ......................................................................................................................... 26; title: ADHD .............................................................................................................................................. 28; title: Anxiety disorders ............................................................................................................................ 28; title: Inflammation, one of the latest fads in psychiatry ........................................................................ 28; title: 5 Psychiatric diagnoses are not reliable............................................................................................. 30; title: 6 Psychiatric drug trials are not reliable ............................................................................................ 39; title: Rating scales ................................................................................................................................... 39; title: Lack of effective blinding................................................................................................................ 40; title: Withdrawal effects in the placebo group....................................................................................... 40; title: Manipulated data analyses and selective reporting ...................................................................... 41; title: 7 Psychosis ......................................................................................................................................... 43; title: Psychosis pills don’t have clinically relevant effects on psychosis................................................. 43; title: Psychosis pills increase mortality substantially.............................................................................. 46; title: Early intervention? Yes, but not with psychosis drugs .................................................................. 48; title: Psychosis pills do not prevent relapse ........................................................................................... 55; title: Organised crime and fraud pays off ............................................................................................... 57; title: The different psychosis drugs ........................................................................................................ 59; title: The fairy tale of clozapine .............................................................................................................. 61; title: Upping the dose, using several drugs concomitantly, and increasing deaths ............................... 62; title: 2; title: Irreversible brain damage and other serious harms ...................................................................... 63; title: Lithium and antiepileptics .............................................................................................................. 66; title: Benzodiazepines ............................................................................................................................. 67; title: Psychotherapy and caring .............................................................................................................. 68; title: 8 Depression and mania (affective disorders) ................................................................................... 70; title: Depression pills don’t have clinically relevant effects on depression ........................................... 72; title: Number needed to treat is highly misleading ............................................................................ 78; title: Depression pills lead to dependence ............................................................................................. 79; title: Depression pills don’t work for children and double their risk of suicide ..................................... 81; title: Fluoxetine is unsafe and ineffective and the trials are manipulated ......................................... 82; title: The large TADS study of fluoxetine funded by NIH was seriously misreported ......................... 85; title: Other depression pills are also unsafe and the paediatric trials are manipulated .................... 86; title: Concealing suicide and homicide: fraud, organised crime and FDA’s complicity .......................... 89; title: More about SSRIs and SNRIs causing homicide ........................................................................... 101; title: Does the disease or the pills increase the risk of dementia?....................................................... 103; title: Other harms of depression pills ................................................................................................... 104; title: Bipolar disorder ............................................................................................................................ 105; title: Lithium: no reliable evidence that is prevents suicide or dementia ........................................ 106; title: Harms of lithium ....................................................................................................................... 110; title: Psychosis pills, antiepileptics and ECT ...................................................................................... 111; title: Depression pills increase total mortality substantially ................................................................ 113; title: Depression pills do not prevent relapse ...................................................................................... 114; title: The different treatments and combinations ................................................................................ 117; title: Pregnancy ..................................................................................................................................... 122; title: Psychotherapy and psychoeducation .......................................................................................... 124; title: 9 ADHD ............................................................................................................................................. 127; title: An epidemic of ADHD diagnoses .................................................................................................. 127; title: Psychoeducation and psychotherapy or drugs? .......................................................................... 128; title: The large MTA trial and institutional corruption ......................................................................... 131; title: Misleading textbook information and advice .............................................................................. 133; title: Harms of ADHD drugs................................................................................................................... 136; title: We should not change children’s brains but their environment ................................................. 138; title: 10 Anxiety disorders ........................................................................................................................ 141; title: 11 Dementia ..................................................................................................................................... 144; title: 3; title: 12 Electroshock ................................................................................................................................ 148; title: 13 Forced treatment ........................................................................................................................ 152; title: 14 Psychotherapy and the role of psychologists ............................................................................. 158; title: 15 Withdrawal of psychiatric drugs ................................................................................................. 162; title: 16 Is there any future for psychiatry?.............................................................................................. 169; title: Censorship in medical journals and the media ............................................................................ 173; title: More issues with unreliable diagnoses and poor drugs .............................................................. 176; title: The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies.............................................................................. 180; title: Thomas Insel and the NIMH: A total betrayal of public trust ...................................................... 181; title: Final words about a specialty in ruins and what to do about it ................................................... 189; title: About the author ............................................................................................................................. 194; title: References........................................................................................................................................ 196; title: Index .............................................................................................................................................. 232; title: .