Assoc. prof, dr Peter M. Jansson

Associate professor of Sociolology at Dalarna University, Sweden. Research: Intimate Partner Violence, VAW, Child Abuse, Batterer Treatment, Emotions

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

In this piece, leading US psychiatrists rehash the same old spin to assert antidepressant efficacy (focusing on response rates, speculating that a proportion have a real pharmacological and clinically significant effect, ignoring withdrawal effects in long-term treatment trials), continue to minimise adverse effects and imply that even more people should be taking antidepressants than the 1/5 of the population already taking them. https://t.co/Z69JvunwnP

[Sexes MDPI @Sexes_MDPI]

Existing records undercount historical executions of women in the US by nearly half.⚖️#Criminology #HistoryMatters
This study introduces the Women’s Execution Database #WEB to provide empirical data on how gender & race intersect with capital punishment.
👉https://t.co/GimEB0LuRj

[Assoc. prof, dr Peter M. Jansson @PeterMJansson]

@ldiotsOnCamera Give him/her food as I just did a moment ago

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Excellent piece in @nytimes. The 'core ideas [of the alliance] are that mainstream psychiatry is too quick to see normal human suffering as a disease, that its diagnostic labels often crush a patients identity and sense of agency and that psychotropics, for many, do more harm than good'. https://t.co/YCY2Xmsc76.

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

A good piece explaining that mental health diagnoses (depression, ADHD etc) are labels for patterns of behaviour, not verified brain conditions. It could have stressed more how subjective and elastic the labels are and how they can become self fulfilling prophecies that limit people's aspirations. https://t.co/ejnRYGcmg9

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

Fascinating blog on the different stories we tell ourselves about our lives and struggles. 'You can choose to say that you have a brain disease...or you can tell yourself the other story, which is actually the story that we have way more evidence for, which is that life is hard. People are different and complicated. There are all sorts of ways to conceive of why you might be struggling at any given point in your life.' https://t.co/G1bBPD7kMO

[Iatrogenic Awareness @iatrogenicaware]

Historically, PSSD victims have been threatened with involuntary psychiatric hospitalization when reporting their symptoms. This cannot continue.

[Assoc. prof, dr Peter M. Jansson @PeterMJansson]

@ErikMessamoreMD Szazs gives us some other (social) reasons.

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Very important: SSRIs should not be used at all during pregnancy. But for a start, here is a petition for better FDA warnings: https://t.co/fFXxMmZhs4. Open for comments until 23 March, which can be anonymous. Could be professional, or personal stories from mothers who experienced complications. See also the recent FDA panel meeting on SSRIs in pregnancy: https://t.co/csaUp5PBp6.

[Karnac Books @KarnacBooks]

Today we are honoring the life and work of Erich Fromm, a German-born American psychoanalyst who explored the interaction between psychology and society.

🔗 Discover books by and about Erich Fromm: https://t.co/KGxlcDXJUE

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

The idea that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance is associated with pessimism and chronicity. Seeing it as a meaningful signal improves chances of recovery. https://t.co/xXibGaC6qr

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Article in a leading psychiatry journal, JAMA Psychiatry, stinks of corruption. https://t.co/qZEwMHBu9P. Why pay $2,000 a month for a new antipsychotic, which is almost double as much as the federal minimum wage in the United States when such drugs cannot cure anyone but kill?

[Prof. Peter C Gøtzsche @PGtzsche1]

Ironically, the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority is called Medsafe. Drugs are not safe. They are the major killer, ahead of heart disease and cancer, https://t.co/M0sPNSyXMF. And yet, NZ, already defamed as the only country in the world, apart from the USA, that allows ads for presciption drugs to the public, now opens the door for even more deaths. https://t.co/sHR0qkgZfS.

The Medicines Amendment Act 2025 enables wider prescribing of unapproved medicines; enables advertising of unapproved medicines at medical conferences; and removes a restriction that prevented prescribers from holding a financial interest in a pharmacy.

I am stunned.

[Karnac Books @KarnacBooks]

We were very saddened to learn of the death of Graham S. Clarke.

For anyone who knew Graham, personally or professionally, we warmly invite you to add your message and celebration of his life to his online tribute message board below.

🔗 https://t.co/FDwpIevxG8

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

New blog from @PGtzsche1 on the 'pandemic of psychiatric diagnoses'. 'Psychiatric diagnoses are unscientific and are based on vague, arbitrary symptoms many of us have from time to time.' https://t.co/nzqgMWf2bg

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Lifting weights is associated with better academic performance.

[Dr Joanna Moncrieff @joannamoncrieff]

My interview on the Doctors Kitchen podcast is also on Youtube:
https://t.co/Gr2sevG62A

[Lacan Circle Of Australia @lacancircle]

Fine Marxists do marxism

“Just as man is governed in religion by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.”

Karl Marx, Capital, Volumes I - III, 1912

[Rethinking Marxism @RethinkMarxism]

New issue of Rethinking Marxism - Vol. 36 No. 4

The Purification of Struggle in Foucault’s Analysis of Ancient Philosophy - by Charles E. Snyder

https://t.co/5K3kRH4hv8

[Psychosocial Foundation @PsychosocialFo1]

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