Psychiatry Past & Present

A history of psychosis and corruption in modern psychiatry

About this course

David Healy offers a two part course on the prescribing of antidepressant medications. He first covers the history of psychosis, beginning in the 19th century and continuing into the present day. He then deconstructs the historical Study 329 as an example of the corruption which pervades modern psychiatric research.

Note: This lecture does not currently provide continuing education.

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Your Instructor


Dr. David Healy is a professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University in Wales and a former secretary of the British Psychopharmacology Association. He is considered one of the premier scholars of the psychopharmacology era and has written more about “medical optimization” than any other psychiatrist in the world. Healy is the founder of RxISK.org, a data-gathering and sharing website that integrates research data with clinical expertise and the reports of those with lived experience.

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