[im] Is everything you think you know about depression wrong?

János Sugár sj at c3.hu
Fri Jan 4 14:56:44 CET 2019


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Professor Andrew Scull of Princeton, writing in the Lancet, explained 
that attributing depression to spontaneously low serotonin is "deeply 
misleading and unscientific". Dr David Healy told me: "There was 
never any basis for it, ever. It was just marketing copy."
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In its official statement for World Health Day in 2017, the United 
Nations reviewed the best evidence and concluded that "the dominant 
biomedical narrative of depression" is based on "biased and selective 
use of research outcomes" that "must be abandoned". We need to move 
from "focusing on 'chemical imbalances'", they said, to focusing more 
on "power imbalances".
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/07/is-everything-you-think-you-know-about-depression-wrong-johann-hari-lost-connections

https://bjgp.org/content/68/672/331


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