Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Gotzsche Peter C.
Title : Deadly psychiatry and organised denial
Year : 2015

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Introduction. Psychiatry is not an easy specialty. It requires a lot of patience and understanding, and there are many frustrations. I am sure psychiatrists sometimes get frustrated at patients who continue to destroy their lives, refusing to take on board the good advice they have been offered about how they could improve on their attitude to life’s many troubles. This book is not about the psychiatrists’ problems, however. It is about why psychiatry has failed to deliver what patients want, and what the consequences are of focusing on using harmful drugs of questionable benefit. Most patients don’t respond to the drugs they receive and, unfortunately, the psychiatrists’ frustrations at the lack of progress often lead to the prescribing of more drugs or higher doses, further harming the patients. ...