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List of works by Joanna Moncrieff

"Being Bipolar": A Qualitative Analysis of the Experience of Bipolar Disorder as Described in Internet Blogs

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

'Freedom is more important than health': Thomas Szasz and the problem of paternalism

scientific article published on 01 May 2014

'Rapid tranquillisation': an historical perspective on its emergence in the context of the development of antipsychotic medications

scientific article published in March 2014

'They won't do any harm and might do some good': time to think again on the use of antidepressants?

scientific article published on January 2011

A Digital Intervention for Primary Care Practitioners to Support Antidepressant Discontinuation (Advisor for Health Professionals): Development Study

scientific article published on 27 April 2021

A Straight-Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs

A comparison of antidepressant trials using active and inert placebos.

scientific article published in January 2003

A critical analysis of recent data on the long-term outcome of antipsychotic treatment

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

A critique of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia and psychosis

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A critique of the international consensus statement on ADHD.

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A multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of naltrexone in the treatment of alcohol dependence or abuse

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

A systematic review of the effects of antipsychotic drugs on brain volume

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Active placebos in antidepressant trials

scientific article published on 01 July 1998

Active placebos versus antidepressants for depression

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Against the stream: Antidepressants are not antidepressants - an alternative approach to drug action and implications for the use of antidepressants

scientific article published in February 2018

An analysis of views about supported reduction or discontinuation of antipsychotic treatment among people with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

Antidepressant prescribing and suicide: Analysis is misleading

scientific article published on August 2003

Antidepressants using active placebos

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Antidepressants: misnamed and misrepresented

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Antipsychotic Maintenance Treatment: Time to Rethink?

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Antipsychotics as particular types of sedatives

scientific article published on 06 December 2019

Are antidepressants as effective as claimed? No, they are not effective at all.

scientific article published in February 2007

Are we repeating mistakes of the past? A review of the evidence for esketamine

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Association between sexual and substance abuse

scientific article published on 01 June 1994

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder late birthdate effect common in both high and low prescribing international jurisdictions: systematic review

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scientific article published on 01 June 2018

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Barriers to stopping neuroleptic (antipsychotic) treatment in people with schizophrenia, psychosis or bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 06 July 2020

British psychiatry in the 20th century--observations from a psychiatric journal

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Childhood trauma in bipolar disorder

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Claims for sickness and disability benefits owing to mental disorders in the UK: trends from 1995 to 2014

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Clinical guidelines on antidepressant withdrawal urgently need updating

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Clinical trials and the response rate illusion

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Clozapine v. conventional antipsychotic drugs for treatment-resistant schizophrenia: a re-examination

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Co-opting psychiatry: the alliance between academic psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry.

scientific article published in July 2007

Craddock and Mynors-Wallis's assault on thinking

scientific article published in December 2014

Critical analysis of the concept of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

Definitions of relapse in trials comparing antipsychotic maintenance with discontinuation or reduction for schizophrenia spectrum disorders: A systematic review

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Do antidepressants cure or create abnormal brain states?

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Double blind random bluff.

scientific article published in November 2003

Drop the language of disorder

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Drugs versus placebo for dysthymia

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Drugs versus placebo for dysthymia

scientific article (published 2005-04-20)

Efficacy of antidepressants in adults

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Empirically derived criteria cast doubt on the clinical significance of antidepressant-placebo differences

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Experiences of taking neuroleptic medication and impacts on symptoms, sense of self and agency: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative data

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Forty Years of Lithium Treatment ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

History, violence and collective memory: Implications for mental health in Ecuador

scientific article published on 11 April 2019

How do psychiatric drugs work?

scientific article published on 29 May 2009

Inconclusive Evidence in Support of the Dopamine Hypothesis of Psychosis: Why Neurobiological Research Must Consider Medication Use, Adjust for Important Confounders, Choose Stringent Comparators, and Use Larger Samples.

scientific article published in May 2018

Is ADHD a valid diagnosis in adults? No.

scientific article published on 26 March 2010

Is the chemical imbalance an ‘urban legend’? An exploration of the status of the serotonin theory of depression in the scientific literature

scientific article published in 2022

Lack of safeguards in response to restrictive public health measures

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Lithium revisited

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Lithium revisited. A re-examination of the placebo-controlled trials of lithium prophylaxis in manic-depressive disorder

scientific article published on 01 November 1995

Magic bullets for mental disorders: the emergence of the concept of an "antipsychotic" drug

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Mental health professionals' views and experiences of antipsychotic reduction and discontinuation.

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Misleading information about antipsychotics

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Misrepresenting harms in antidepressant trials.

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Modernising mental health services. Psychiatrists should oppose community treatment orders

Network meta-analysis of antidepressants

New drug treatments for alcohol problems: a critical appraisal

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Persistent adverse effects of antidepressants

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Protecting physical health in people with mental illness

scientific article published in November 2019

Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neo-liberalism

scientific article published in April 2006

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

scientific article published in December 2012

Psychosocial interventions for people with schizophrenia or psychosis on minimal or no antipsychotic medication: A systematic review

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Questioning the ‘neuroprotective’ hypothesis: does drug treatment prevent brain damage in early psychosis or schizophrenia? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Quetiapine immediate release v. placebo for schizophrenia: systematic review, meta-analysis and reappraisal

scientific article published on May 2015

REDUCE (Reviewing long-term antidepressant use by careful monitoring in everyday practice) internet and telephone support to people coming off long-term antidepressants: protocol for a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

Randomised controlled trial of gradual antipsychotic reduction and discontinuation in people with schizophrenia and related disorders: the RADAR trial (Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation and Reduction)

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Recruitment and retention strategies in mental health trials - A systematic review

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Research on a 'drug-centred' approach to psychiatric drug treatment: assessing the impact of mental and behavioural alterations produced by psychiatric drugs

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Results of a pilot cluster randomised trial of the use of a Medication Review Tool for people taking antipsychotic medication.

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Rethinking models of psychotropic drug action

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SSRI and SNRI withdrawal symptoms reported on an internet forum

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Schizophrenia: a critical psychiatry perspective

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: evidence base for older antidepressants is shaky too.

scientific article published on February 2005

Sexual abuse in people with alcohol problems. A study of the prevalence of sexual abuse and its relationship to drinking behaviour

scientific article published in September 1996

Some progress in UK psychiatry

scientific article published on 23 September 2008

Supporting antidepressant discontinuation: the development and optimisation of a digital intervention for patients in UK primary care using a theory, evidence and person-based approach

scientific article published on 08 March 2020

Ten books

scientific article published in November 2016

The Bitterest Pills

The Myth of the Chemical Cure

The Psychoactive Effects of Antidepressants and their Association with Suicidality ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

The antidepressant debate.

scientific article published in March 2002

The costs incurred by the NHS in England due to the unnecessary prescribing of dependency-forming medications

scientific article published in 2022

The creation of the concept of an antidepressant: an historical analysis

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The functions of an asylum: an analysis of male and female admissions to Essex County Asylum in 1904

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

The least worst option: user experiences of antipsychotic medication and lack of involvement in medication decisions in a UK community sample

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The medicalisation of "ups and downs": the marketing of the new bipolar disorder

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

The myth of the magic antipsychotic

scientific article published in June 2008

The pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering. Psychiatry should not accept so much commercial sponsorship

The politics of a new Mental Health Act.

scientific article published in July 2003

The psychoactive effects of psychiatric medication: the elephant in the room

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The quality of alcohol treatment research: an examination of influential controlled trials and development of a quality rating system.

scientific article published on June 1998

The serotonin hypothesis of depression: both long discarded and still supported?

scientific article published in 2023

The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

The social and cultural construction of psychiatric knowledge: an analysis of NICE guidelines on depression and ADHD.

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The social underpinnings of mental distress in the time of COVID-19 - time for urgent action

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

The subjective experience of taking antipsychotic medication: a content analysis of Internet data

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Trends in prescriptions and costs of drugs for mental disorders in England, 1998-2010.

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What does the latest meta-analysis really tell us about antidepressants?

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Why is it so difficult to stop psychiatric drug treatment? It may be nothing to do with the original problem

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