Mental Health (MH) issues and the indiscriminate use of psychotropic drugs are a great deal
of a problem for the Primary Health Care (PHC) and public health. The aim of this article is to …

Objectives This study aimed to identify factors associated with side effects of psychotropic
drugs in a real-world setting enriched with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) patients …

Background Major depression significantly impairs quality of life, increases the risk of
suicide, and poses tremendous economic burden on individuals and societies. Duloxetine, a …

The current study draws on interviews with service users about their experiences to inform
the practice of psychodynamic couple therapy for depression. Five participants, who had …

Many studies have demonstrated that antidepressants can cause a variety of side effects,
including sexual difficulties. These sexual difficulties can persist after discontinuation of …

In this article a new hypothesis is presented concerning the causal mechanism underlying
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). According to this model the antidepressant effect is caused …

Background: Antenatal depression is common and associated with detrimental impacts on
women and their families. Disrupted neuroendocrine functioning is reported in women …

BACKGROUND: Although antidepressant medication (ADM) has produced small
advantages over pill placebo in randomized controlled trials, consuming ADM has predicted …

This paper examines the evidence behind the use and decline of insulin coma therapy as a
treatment for schizophrenia and how this was viewed by the psychiatric profession. The …

I once spent 8 hours in the back of a car with Alastair Campbell. We were being driven from
London to Bolton and back again the same day. The occasion was the launch in 2008 of …