Finnish psychiatry professor Erkki Isometsä argues in Helsingin Sanomat (10 March) that antidepressant drug have clear benefits and that I ignore evidence to the contrary. I do not. I have gone carefully through a vast body of research, which includes unpublished data Isometsä has never seen because we got the study reports from the European […]

The Finnish Psychological Association held a meeting in Helsinki on 1 Sept 2014 titled “Mental health and medicalization.” I spoke at the meeting and four days later, I sent a letter to another speaker, psychiatrist, professor Erkki Isometsä. Professor Isometsä replied on 7 Sept: “I will respond to it in detail within a few days; I