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The Lancet Psychiatry publishes a back and forth between critics and defenders of ECT.

Researchers argue that we need a shift away from the biomedical model of depression to one informed by political action and common sense.

From The Lancet: If electroconvulsive therapy is so very effective and so very safe, why is it used only by a tiny and dwindling number of psychiatrists?

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Open letter from patients, psychiatrists, and professors calls on NICE to rewrite ECT guidelines to avoid putting patients’ safety at risk.

Dr John Read is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. He has published multiple reviews of the ECT Research literature. John is Chair of the International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal.

Adverse effects of antidepressants, including sexual difficulties and emotional numbing, apathy, suicidality and withdrawal effects may be more frequent th

Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for

With one in five people taking pills for their mental health, doctors are turning to alternative methods – with help from Sport England

Irving Kirsch and Joanna Moncrieff have reanalyzed the clinical trial data on antidepressants.