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Even for severe depression, multiple studies have found that adding antidepressants to cognitive behavioural therapy does not result in better outcomes—psychotherapy alone is just as good in the short term. And therapy alone beats the drugs when it comes to long-term outcomes.
Finally, the study concludes that it is necessary for the University to turn to itself and question its current education practices. To this end, it is necessary to rethink the university structure, teacher training, curricula, physical spaces, cultural actions, interpersonal relationships, teaching methodologies, research and extension, as well as the very conception of knowledge and science.
I was a user of mental health services for 22 years and over 30 years I was developing a personal opinion, from which I maintain that psychiatry and psychology are pseudosciences that base their practices on morality and not on evidence and methodology as if other sciences do. Practices based on morality, which manage to modify behavior, happen both in sects and in many pseudoscientific practices such as psychology and psychiatry.
Psychiatrist Yousaf Raza details the problems with psychiatric health care in Pakistan and shows how to find a way forward.
The two days in Cork were thought provoking and inspiring. I hope other members of the CCrAMHP group (that I’m involved with in Lancaster) can attend the Critical Voices Conference next year. A number of us have been contributing to Asylum magazine. It would be great to run a Madzines workshop then, and to help to bring more creative approaches into the core of the conference.