{"id":741,"date":"2015-11-24T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/?p=741"},"modified":"2023-01-08T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T23:46:10","slug":"mind-brain-split-psychiatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/index.php\/mind-brain-split-psychiatry\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-brain split splits psychiatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bYAQ-ZZtEU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">During a frontal lobotomy operation, the surgeon asked the patient, &#8220;Do you know where I am now?&#8221; to which the patient replied,&#8221;You&#8217;re in my mind.&#8221;! (As quoted in <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Psychiatry-Philosophy-Science\/dp\/1844651088\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448402155&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=rachel+philosophy+of+psychiatry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science<\/a><\/span>, by Rachel Cooper)<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Mind-Brain Split<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<div style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cf\/The_gyri_of_the_thinker%27s_brain_as_a_maze_of_choices_in_biom_Wellcome_L0027293.jpg\/174px-The_gyri_of_the_thinker%27s_brain_as_a_maze_of_choices_in_biom_Wellcome_L0027293.jpg\" alt=\"mind-brain split\" width=\"174\" height=\"240\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">mind or brain?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The mind-brain problem had to raise its head sometime in psychiatry. In a <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/11\/opinion\/psychiatrys-mind-brain-problem.html?emc=edit_ty_20151111&amp;nl=opinion&amp;nlid=72284146&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em> op-ed <\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgemakari.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Makari<\/a><\/span>, a Professor of psychiatry, said he was disappointed that research published by Dr Kane, which shows adjuncts like family, education and social adaptation along with lower doses of medication were more effective than medication alone, was such a surprise to so many and made front page news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The approach,\u00a0empirically verified\u00a0by Dr Kane, is known as the <em>biopsychosocial<\/em> model of illness and is the method of treatment preferred by experienced, pragmatically-minded clinicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">So why hasn&#8217;t this biopsychosoical model been used more &#8211; or exclusively? Such an inclusive holistic approach has declined, but why? Big Pharma according to Prof Makari. Treatment, he says, has veered toward pharmacology. Research leaders have promoted limited positive drug outcomes, &#8220;successes&#8221; like Prozac and Respiridone. Also, to de-stigmatise mental illness, they promoted the idea of mental illness as a brain (i.e. physical) disease which makes it sound more authoritative and simpler so also making it more convenient for prescribing. A good all round win situation, just that it&#8217;s not scientific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">So now, says Prof Makari, mental illness is a dysfunction of brain neurons. This reduction equating mind and brain excludes mental illness due to moral feeling and anything smacking of the metaphysical, in fact anything not due to the biological is justified as fake by the reductionists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Prof Makari hopes this latest research will encourage the many working in psychiatry who have never accepted such simplistic reductionism.\u00a0He hopes it will lead to more research and that studies like Dr Kane&#8217;s will lead to pragmatic psychological and social treatments, not the neuro-anatomical and biochemical paradigms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Psychiatry has been prone to pendulum swings as an internal advance or some\u00a0social force tipped it\u00b9\u00a0this way or that, swings which may lead to insights but also to detrimental (excuse the pun!) effects for patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Research and Scientific Bias<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sadly the research he hopes for is unlikely. Since 2014, to receive funding for research, the National Institute for Mental Health insists researchers must explicitly focus on a target such as a biomarker or neural circuit. Hence, Dr Kane&#8217;s study would not be funded today (nor would Einstein&#8217;s for that matter). This is despite the fact, according to Makari, that <strong>psychiatry has yet to adequately identify any specific biomarkers or circuits for it major illnesses!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The consequence of such biased funding means only one outcome; &#8220;A bonanza for Big Pharma.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Psychiatry has still to answer what Prof Makari calls the &#8216;mind-brain problem&#8217;. Like the proverbial chicken and egg, which comes first, the mind, the brain or even both together? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In this regard, in mentioning psychology and social treatments, he too is reductionistic &#8211; he could refer to mental illness as a constitutional disorder rather than reduce it to brain or mind. In such a case, the cause of mental illness wouldn&#8217;t be one or other but both together since\u00a0how can you separate the two; there is only one person. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">While he alludes to the psychological and social, he could go a step further as Hahnemann did and acknowledge disease is often dynamic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">And as Prof Makari concludes, Dr Kane&#8217;s research is new evidence for an old idea. Sometimes truth doesn&#8217;t change and <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4mh1I-3v\">new drugs aren&#8217;t always better<\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">With such bias in research and no definite knowledge of what\u00a0constitutes a mentally ill person it&#8217;s plain that few in medicine are in a position to criticise homeopathy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<sup>1<\/sup> Watch the Astroturf video above to learn how such forces operate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Prof Makari, a historian,\u00a0refers to early psychiatrists such as Pinel and Reil. He neglects to mention Samuel Hahnemann who was the first in the history of medicine to treat humanely the mentally ill. Just some of the references\u00a0from Hahnemann&#8217;s\u00a0experience and insights on mental illness are as follows:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 Letter to patient on cheerful methods of life <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/homeoint.org\/books4\/bradford\/chapter16.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span> or <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/lifelettersofdrs00brad#page\/52\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 How he took in a patient to treat at home: Samuel Hahnemann: His Life and Work, Volume 2: pp. 38, 39. Available <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/samuelhahnemannh02haehuoft#page\/38\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span> and <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=wf2vl2ch9a4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=life+and+letters+of+hahnemann&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiWz9bq9afJAhVB7RQKHU74ADMQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&amp;q=insane&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 Supplement 25, pp. 36-37 describes how Duke Ernst gave up his castle as a nursing home for Hahnemann to treat the &#8220;insane.&#8221; See <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/samuelhahnemannh02haehuoft#page\/36\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span> or <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=wf2vl2ch9a4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=life+and+letters+of+hahnemann&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiWz9bq9afJAhVB7RQKHU74ADMQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&amp;q=duke%20ernst&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 In Hahnemann&#8217;s Organon how many references to treating and incorporating the mind? See <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=n3YC435gKFIC&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=organon+of+medicine+boericke&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwirqNzu66nJAhWFtRQKHffMDO8Q6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=mind&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 Vol. 1 of Haehl&#8217;s biography gives a description of his treatment of a mentally ill patient, Klockenbring, in the early 1790s: p. 41 following. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/samuelhahnemannh01haehuoft#page\/40\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> \u2022 The case of which is available here in his Lesser Writings: Description of Klockenbring During his Insanity, p. 243 ff. Such a case today would hardly be treated so wisely and skilfully! <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/lesserwritingss00hahngoog#page\/n272\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/span>\u00a0or <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=RDTiwKPlMiEC&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;dq=samuel%20hahnemann%20lesser%20writings&amp;pg=PA243#v=onepage&amp;q=klockenbring&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u2022 Supplement 196 on Psycho-therapy, p. 397 shows how Hahnemann considered the patient&#8217;s life and background. <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/samuelhahnemannh02haehuoft#page\/396\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Link<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ie\/books?id=wf2vl2ch9a4C&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=life+and+letters+of+hahnemann&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwimxP3NvqnJAhVJ8RQKHZQ2AQcQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&amp;q=mind&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A Brief Biography of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann who put medicine on a scientific foundation<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homeoint.org\/morrell\/articles\/biohahnemann.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">On the ineffectiveness of psychiatry see this research,\u00a0for example: Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2253608\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Changing the status quo, even for science and truth, is a challenge due to groupthink and the silo effect as this meta-analysis of psychiatry and the placebo effect shows:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2582668\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Challenging Received Wisdom: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Further Reading<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">In 2012 a psychiatrist called for more homeopathy in psychiatry. See<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/uae\/health\/adopt-homoeopathy-in-mental-health-care-1.1024482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adopt homoeopathy in mental health care: it can help reduce duration of hospitalisation and quantity of the medicine needed<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">in <em>Gulf News<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Addendum<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Research published this week in the BMJ gives credence to Prof Makari&#8217;s concerns. The research &#8220;Comparative benefits and harms of second generation antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapies in initial treatment of major depressive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis&#8221; concludes\u00a0therapies are at least as effective as antidepressants &#8211; without the side-effects. A summary is <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/12039952\/anti-depressants-vs-counselling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/12039952\/anti-depressants-vs-counselling.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Updates<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Jan. 2016: Antidepressants can raise the risk of suicide, biggest ever review finds. Antidepressant use doubles the risk of suicide in under 18s and the risks to adults may have been seriously underestimated, researchers found, according to the<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/health\/news\/12126146\/Antidepressants-can-raise-the-risk-of-suicide-biggest-ever-review-finds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #333333;\">The report continues:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Experts said the review&#8217;s findings were &#8220;startling&#8221; and said it was &#8220;deeply worrying&#8221; that clinical trials appear to have been misreported&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Four deaths were misreported by one unnamed pharmaceutical company, who claimed they had occurred after the trials had stopped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">In summary trial reports from the drugs giant Eli Lilly, suicidal attempts were missing in 90 per cent of cases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Professor Peter G\u00f8tzsche, the lead author from the Nordic Cochrane Centre said: &#8220;Antidepressants don&#8217;t work in children, that is pretty clear, in the randomised trials children say that they don&#8217;t work for them, but they increase their risk of suicide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;It is absolutely horrendous that they have such disregard for human lives.&#8221;<br \/>\nProfessor Peter Gotzsche, <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cochrane.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nordic Cochrane Centre<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The research is published in the BMJ:<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/352\/bmj.i65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Suicidality and aggression during antidepressant treatment: systematic review and meta-analyses based on clinical study reports<\/em><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\">(BMJ 2016; 352\u00a0 doi: http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/bmj.i65 (Published 27 January 2016)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Cite this as: BMJ 2016;352:i65)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Regarding the above shocking research conclusions, a UK doctor comments:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The down side of antidepressants has never been well exposed to view. Hence regular refreshers and new views important to note.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The advertising pressures from Pharma and time pressures on GPs and psychs have ensured that SSRIs etc continue in wide use despite the efforts of<span style=\"color: #008000;\"> <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/davidhealy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Healey<\/a><\/span> (&#8221; The Antidepressant Era&#8221; , &#8220;Pharmageddon&#8221; ) et al to point out their\u00a0 dangers, incl suicide, since pre 2000. He is reported to have had a professorial role withdrawn in Toronto after Pharma pressure &#8211; unproven.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">An important\u00a0 Nordic voice ( PCG ) has just recently pointed out that \u201cantidepressants are addictive and increase the risk of relapse.\u201c This is the\u00a0conclusion\u00a0of research published in the BMJ in 2015: <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/351\/bmj.h6019\/rr-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comparative benefits and harms of second generation antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapies in initial treatment of major depressive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">These dangers were pointed out before, for example by Professors of psychiatry: see<\/span> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/naturalsociety.com\/antidepressants-may-be-worsening-depression-not-treating-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Antidepressants May be Worsening Depression, Not Treating it <\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">March 2016: Brian Daniels, the National Spokesperson for Citizens Commission on Human Rights (United Kingdom), wrote a letter\u00a0to the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/opinion\/letters\/kims-selfies-upset-me-34555893.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sunday Independent<\/a><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Violence and anti-depressants<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Sir &#8211; The air accident investigation agency in France has said that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was using antidepressants when he crashed Flight 9525, carrying 150 people, into the Alps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This tragedy is yet another example of the senseless violence consistently associated with the use of antidepressant drugs that have been documented to cause mania, psychosis, violence, and suicidal thoughts. It is now becoming commonplace to ask what psychiatric drugs the person was taking whenever there is a story of senseless violence around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The safety of psychiatric drugs, especially antidepressants, has been questioned for years now and with so many violent deaths and suicides linked to their use, public safety is being compromised. And it&#8217;s not just adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The World Health Organisation recently expressed concerns about the 54pc increase in the number of children who were prescribed antidepressants between 2005 and 2012. There is an ever-increasing list of children and adolescents who have taken their own lives after being prescribed a well-known antidepressant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Worldwide, there have been 99 drug regulatory agency warnings that antidepressants cause side effects. Of those warnings, 35 concerned suicide risk, and suicide attempts. There have also been 119 studies in 12 countries on antidepressant-induced side effects. Of those studies, 23 of them concerned antidepressants causing suicide, suicide risks and suicide attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The trail of destruction is most vivid when scrutinising the schoolyard massacres. At least 31 school shootings and\/or school-related acts of violence have been committed by those taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs, resulting in 162 wounded and 72 killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Psychiatrists and drug companies commonly say that the benefits of the drugs outweigh the risks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">It would be more accurate to say that the profits of the drugs outweigh the risks.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">March 2016: Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool and Prof Richard Bentall, also of Liverpool University criticise the Medical Research Council: &#8220;It\u2019s a tragedy actually. The UK Medical Research Council is one of the biggest funders of medical research in the UK but if you look at the things that they fund, by far the majority are things like brain scanners or gene sequencing machines, almost none of it is going towards understanding psychological mechanisms or social circumstances by which these problems develop.&#8221; And, &#8220;Yet the MRC spends just three per cent of its research budget funding studies into mental illness, most of which goes towards genetics or neuroscience.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">But, guess what&#8230;&#8221;Dr Jeff Barrett, who is working on uncovering the genes behind mental illness at the Wellcome Trust\u2019s Sanger Institute said: &#8216;If we understand the fundamental biology of the disease it might be relevant in developing new ideas for therapies that are applicable to a wide range of patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8216;So if by doing studies like this we can strongly implicate one area of biology it gives a new lead for drug companies to try to develop new therapies.'&#8221; As quoted in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/science\/science-news\/12205847\/Mental-illness-mostly-caused-by-life-events-not-genetics-argue-psychologists.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>June 2016:<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(16)30385-3\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lancet<\/a><\/span> publishes a new study showing antidepressants for young people are ineffective and\/or harmful: &#8220;When considering the risk\u2013benefit profile of antidepressants in the acute treatment of major depressive disorder, these drugs do not seem to offer a clear advantage for children and adolescents.&#8221; Or read\u00a0Sarah Knapton&#8217;s\u00a0summary in the <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/06\/08\/antidepressants-in-young-people-may-do-more-harm-than-good-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">See also<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial<\/span> <\/em>by<\/span> <span class=\"author notFaded\" style=\"color: #008000;\"><a class=\"a-link-normal\" style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Apeter+gotzsche&amp;keywords=peter+gotzsche&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1477507970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter C. G\u00f8tzsche<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">. The first chapter can be read <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlymedicines.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/G%C3%B8tzsche-Deadly-Psychiatry-chapter-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here for free<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">His article in the BMJ.com &#8220;Does long term use of psychiatric drugs cause more harm than good?&#8221; is answered in the affirmative (<span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/350\/bmj.h2435\/rr-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a><\/span>).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Photo Credit: The gyri of the thinker&#8217;s brain as a maze of choices in biomedical ethics, by Bill Sanderson,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"http:\/\/wellcomeimages.org\/indexplus\/image\/L0027293.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Wellcome Images<\/span><\/a> via<\/span> <a style=\"color: #008000;\" href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:The_gyri_of_the_thinker%27s_brain_as_a_maze_of_choices_in_biom_Wellcome_L0027293.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiki Commons<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 During a frontal lobotomy operation, the surgeon asked the patient, &#8220;Do you know where I am now?&#8221; to which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,3,16,8],"tags":[845,837,835,619,849,901,174,833,843,53,847,841,13,363,301,4,238],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-medicines","category-pharmaceutical-industry","category-scientific-research","tag-biomarkers","tag-biopsychosocial-model","tag-brain","tag-duke-ernst-of-gotha","tag-johann-christian-reil","tag-meta-analysis","tag-metaphysics","tag-mind","tag-mind-brain-problem","tag-pharmacology","tag-philippe-pinel","tag-prof-george-makari","tag-psychiatry","tag-samuel-hahnemann","tag-scientific-bias","tag-side-effects","tag-suicide"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mh1I-bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":707,"url":"http:\/\/www.mayohomeopathy.ie\/index.php\/psychiatry-not-science\/","url_meta":{"origin":741,"position":0},"title":"Psychiatry is not a science &#8211; in practice and theory","author":"Stephen Blendell","date":"10\/08\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Psychiatry is\u00a0not a Science - a Recent\u00a0Practical\u00a0Example The trial took place in the Central Criminal Court in Dublin\u00a0last week of Saverio Bellante. 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