Trauma and Violence Informed Care: A Concept Analysis and Implications for Mental Health Nursing Practice Trauma informed care has been taken up across healthcare as a way of delivering care. With evolving understandings of what it means to be trauma informed, and in response to some limitations with tra....

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‘I Wish It Were More Often Told to People Before They Are Prescribed These Medications How Hard It Is to Get Off Them’: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Free‐Text Responses to a Survey on Reducing and Stopping Psychiatric Medication Introduction Despite significant increases in the prescribing of psychiatric medication in recent years, many uncertainties exist regarding the process of reducing and stopping these medications. A ...

‘I Wish It Were More Often Told to People Before They Are Prescribed These Medications How Hard It Is to Get Off Them’: A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of Free‐Text Responses to a Survey on Reducing and Stopping Psychiatric Medication - Boland - 2025 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wicked Labels, and the Power of Narrative in Mental Health Nursing Click on the article title to read more.

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Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met.

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Survey Findings on Electroconvulsive Therapy The first papers from an electroconvulsive therapy survey have been published. It found ECT to be either ineffective or damaging.

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A large exploratory survey of electroconvulsive therapy recipients, family members and friends: what information do they recall being given? The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wa...

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A Survey of 1144 ECT Recipients, Family Members and Friends: Does ECT Work? The last placebo-controlled ECT trial for depression occurred in 1985. While awaiting trials that meet today's standards of evidence-based medicine, this paper presents the responses, to an online su...

First paper from our international ECT survey just out.

On all 5 efficacy measures most recipients, and most relatives, reported it either made no difference or made things worse. Some were helped though.

Thanks to all 1,144 who completed the survey.

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A Survey of 1144 ECT Recipients, Family Members and Friends: Does ECT Work? The last placebo-controlled ECT trial for depression occurred in 1985. While awaiting trials that meet today's standards of evidence-based medicine, this paper presents the responses, to an online su....

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Andrew Amos on X: "Psychiatry has a credibility problem. The trans issue could bury us." / X Psychiatry has a credibility problem. The trans issue could bury us.

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Antidepressant withdrawal: new review downplays symptoms but misses the mark for long-term use Short-term data fails to reveal long-term risks of antidepressant withdrawal.

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Electroconvulsive therapy: reaffirming the case for caution, consent, and rights We welcome the opportunity to respond to Cooper and colleagues' Comment1 on the 2023 WHO and Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights publication on Mental health, human rights ...

Proud to join with WHO in rebuttal of an attack on their Guidance from prominent ECT champions. ‘Misrepresents the guidance…selectively cites literature and overlooks concerns about ECT’s safety, effectiveness and ethics’ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Antipsychotics Do Not Provide a Clinically Meaningful Benefit Over the Short-Term: A Review of the Evidence 70 years of RCTs fail to provide evidence that antipsychotics provide a clinically meaningful benefit for treating acute psychotic episodes.

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Examining the Long-Term Impacts of Psychotropic Drugs and Considerations for People Discontinuing Treatment Psychotropic drugs dominate the mental healthcare landscape. This is despite contention over their proposed mechanism of action, concerns for their adverse effects, and questionable effectiveness, ...

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