Center for Conscious Living

03/01/2024

https://madindenmark-org.translate.goog/de-fejlagtige-raesonnementer-der-gjorde-adhd-til-en-sygdom/?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

07/06/2023

Peter Gøtzsche discusses the diagnosis of bipolar disorder, including in children, and the lack of evidence for any benefit from lithium.

07/05/2023

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-waves-synchronize-when-people-interact/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow I imagine this has a lot to do with better psychotherapy: the synchrony between the brains of therapist and client.

The minds of social species are strikingly resonant

05/01/2023

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/05/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-8-part-one/

Discussing the drug industry’s influence in defining disorders and the lack of efficacy for depression pills.

04/24/2023

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/04/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-7-psychosis-part-six/

Discussing the damage psychosis pills cause to the brain, and how that manifests in many clinical harms, like tardive dyskinesia.

04/19/2023

A recent study of brain stimulation for depression found that the placebo group showed more improvement than the group that received actual brain stimulation.

03/23/2023

Psychosis pills were hailed as a great advance, but this was because they kept the patients docile and quiet.

03/14/2023

from https://t.co/cQURp9qrBT "We compared protocols for randomised trials we had obtained from ethics review committees with the trial publications.137 Two-thirds of the trials had at least one primary outcome that was changed, introduced, or omitted, while 86% of the trialists denied the existence of unreported outcomes (they did not know, of course, that we had access to their protocols when we asked). These serious manipulations were not described in any of the 51 publications."

In this blog, Gøtzsche discusses the ways in which drug trials are biased, including breaking of the double-blind and industry manipulation.

03/14/2023

In this blog, Gøtzsche discusses the ways in which drug trials are biased, including breaking of the double-blind and industry manipulation.

03/06/2023

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/03/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-5-psychiatric-diagnoses-are-not-reliable-part-two/

The screening test for depression recommended by the WHO is so poor that for every 100 screened, 36 will get a false diagnosis of depression.

02/27/2023

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/critical-psychiatry-textbook-chapter-5-psychiatric-diagnoses-are-not-reliable-part-one/

One textbook noted that psychiatric diagnoses have poor validity & do not tell us much about the nature, course, & treatment of the diseases.

02/20/2023

Peter Gøtzsche on the evidence base for textbooks' statements of the imbalance of various neurotransmitters causing psychiatric disorders.