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How do psychiatric drugs work?
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How do psychiatric drugs work?
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Joanna Moncrieff and David Cohen argue that changing our view of the action of psychiatric drugs would help patients to become more involved with decisions about treatment
Conflict of interest statement
Competing interests: JM is co-chairperson of the Critical Psychiatry Network and a member of the International Centre for the Study of Psychology and Psychiatry. DC is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the State Attorney’s general consumer and prescriber grant programme for the CriticalThinkRx project and is a board member of the Alliance for Human Research Protection.
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