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8th May 2010 A Clinical Seminar & Public Lecture with Juliet Mitchell

The “Sibling Trauma” and Its Effects

 Juliet Mitchell May 2010

Presented by the The Irish Forum for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy & The Irish Forum for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Listen to Professor Irving Kirsch of the University of Hull talking on BBC radio about his findings in relation to anti-depressants (his soon to be published paper also targets anti-anxiolitics like Seroxat).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7260000/newsid_7264300/7264396.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1

Prof. Kirsch and his team have conducted the most comprehensive review of all of the clinical trials for drugs like Prozac and Seroxat. They found that there was no significant difference in patient response to the drug or the placebo, with the exception of the case of a minority of the patients, ie those with severe depression. The study leads to some disturbing conclusions apart from the inefficacity of the drugs, notably the fact that it appears that the drug companies only published the results which would give a positive value to the drugs and promote their passage to the market. Prof. Hirsch's research included ALL the results, ie those which were not published, results which he obtained under the American freedom of information act.

Listen to the reaction in Ireland of Professor Siobhan Barry, psychiatrist and public relations officer the Irish Psychiatric Association, speaking on RTE's Morning Ireland

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0226/morningireland_av.html?2341851,null,209

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