Blog – English

A psychiatric patient’s journey, as told to Peter C Gøtzsche in an email

I am a lay person who is reading a serialized version of your book “Mental health survival kit and withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.” It is both very interesting and disturbing. From some of your examples I ask myself: How could anyone function on two or three neuroleptics at once? And how could someone who has […]

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Corona: an epidemic of mass panic

By Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche In Spanish: Corona panico masivo Almost everyone I talk to, lay people and colleagues (I am a specialist in internal medicine and have worked for two years at a department of infectious diseases) consider the Coronavirus pandemic a pandemic of panic, more than anything else. On 8 March, I published

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Sir Iain Chalmers’ personal reflection on the prehistory of the Nordic Cochrane Centre

A personal reflection on the prehistory of the Nordic Cochrane Centre I am delighted to have been asked to contribute to the 25th anniversary celebration of the Nordic Cochrane Centre. Congratulations and thanks to the Centre for its important contributions to the development of the Cochrane Collaboration. I am going to offer you a brief,

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The Harmful Myth About the Chemical Imbalance Causing Psychiatric Disorders

By Prof. Peter C. Gøtzsche, June 28, 2019. Mainstream psychiatry is built on myths that are harmful for patients. I described 10 of them in an article for a Danish newspaper on Jan. 6, 2014, which I published in English two weeks later on psychiatrist David Healy’s website as “Psychiatry Gone Astray” (1). On Jan.

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The Depression Pill Epidemic

By Professor Peter C. Gøtzsche, June 4, 2019. In some countries, including the United States, about 10% of the entire population is in treatment with depression pills. This is a tragedy. These drugs do not have relevant effects on depression; they increase the risk of suicide and violence; and they make it more difficult for

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