John Read - UK Royal College of Psychiatry Refuses to Retract Misleading Statement about Antidepressant Withdrawal and Dismisses Complaint
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🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today on MIA Radio we have a special episode which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving a formal complaint lodged with the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Professor John Read from the University of East London took time out to bring us up to date on the response to the complaint which was lodged on behalf of a group of thirty academics, psychiatrists and people with lived experience.
Relevant links:
Read the full reply letter on Mad in America
Hear the Royal Society of Medicine's podcast interview with Professor Wessely and Dr Clare Gerada
The New York Times - Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, this is James, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | We have a special episode today, which is devoted to recent developments in the UK involving |
| 0:23.3 | the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Professor Reid from the University of East London took time |
| 0:28.5 | out to bring us up to date on the response to a formal complaint lodged with the UK Royal |
| 0:33.4 | College of Psychiatrists on behalf of a group of 30 academics, psychiatrists and people with |
| 0:39.3 | lived experience. |
| 0:40.9 | Professor Reid, thank you so much for taking the time out to talk to us again in what's |
| 0:45.4 | the middle of quite an exciting time for anybody involved in this complaint. |
| 0:49.8 | So just to remind listeners really of, you know, what's led up to this. |
| 0:54.0 | So on March the 9th this year, |
| 0:56.5 | a group of 30 academics, psychiatrists and people with lived experience, wrote to the UK Royal |
| 1:02.6 | College of Psychiatrists to challenge public statements that senior members of the college had made |
| 1:08.3 | about antidepressant withdrawal in the Times newspaper. |
| 1:12.6 | And really, John, I'm grateful to catch up with you because since submitting that complaint on March |
| 1:18.6 | the 9th, I believe there's now been a response from the college. |
| 1:21.6 | So I just wondered if it was okay, if you could kind of take us through what the response |
| 1:26.6 | says and what the reaction has |
| 1:28.4 | been of the people that wrote the initial complaint letter. Yeah, glad to James. Good to be with you |
| 1:33.3 | again. Just to back up ever so slightly just to remind listeners what the statement said that we took |
| 1:39.3 | offence to. The statement said in the Times written by the president and the chair of the World College's psychopharmacology committee, |
| 1:48.1 | they claimed that, quote, the vast and the vast majority of people don't experience, |
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