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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The Beer Index for scientific publishing

We clearly need an index for hopelessly flawed papers. A US colleague, Professor Dennis M. Bier from Houston, has invented one and gave me permission to tell you about it. Beer index

Fyr din psykiater

Fra en anonym patient i den danske psykiatri. Peter C. Gøtzsche har ret i, at psykofarmaka gør større skade end gavn. Men takken for at redde mennesker fra alvorlige hjerneskader er en fyreseddel. Når du er patient i psykiatrien, behøver du ikke læse op på forskningen for at vide, at psykofarmaka er farlige. Du ser …

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En ”motiverende” samtale om tvangsmedicinering i psykiatrien

Modtaget fra en bisidder: Overlægen og SOSU-eleven stod op, mens patienten sad ned. Det er truende, ikke motiverende adfærd! Det bør om nogen de professionelle vide. De havde medbragt medicin og vand, hvilket svarer til, at man tager håndjern med til en motiverende samtale om at blive lagt i håndjern! Læs mere

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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