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. 2009 May 29:338:b1963.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1963.

How do psychiatric drugs work?

Joanna Moncrieff  1 , David Cohen
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How do psychiatric drugs work?

Joanna Moncrieff et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

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

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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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