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Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
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Today we're having an uncomfortable but very necessary conversation about antidepressants and the theory that these drugs work for those with depression by correcting imbalanced chemicals in their brain.Our guest to discuss this topic is Joanna Moncrieff, a Professor of Psychiatry at University College London, and works as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS. She is author of numerous scientific papers including a major review that showed there was little evidence to support the idea that depression is caused by a serotonin abnormality. Her most recent book "Chemically Imbalanced: the making and unmaking of the serotonin myth” is what we're going to be discussing today.This was a complete eye opener for me. For years I believed in the pharmaceutical washed message that antidepressants worked because of a genuine brain chemical imbalance that we corrected with medications. This is not proven.Today we'll discuss over-use and misrepresentation of psychiatric drugs in the public sphere, the changing philosophy of mental health and how we got to a point where over 8 million people in the UK use antidepressants.We discuss what serotonin is, how we measure it in the body, why the imbalance theory is inconclusive, whether antidepressants have good evidence that they work and their many side effects.I want to make it clear that this episode is not meant to shame or belittle anyone on medications for mental health, but provide accurate information about how we can safely treat these problems and offer informed consent weighing up the pros and cons of medications like antidepressants. The use of these medications has well recognised withdrawal and dependency effects and should not be stopped without strict supervision of your medical practitioner. We've also linked to the Maudsley deprescribing guidelines here in the show notes for practitioners educating themselves on how to do this with their patients.Chemically Imbalanced BookWebsite: https://joannamoncrieff.com/
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Liz breaks down the impact the National Policy Statements will have on planners and developers.
Declan Buckley, and Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
What if building a great business mattered more than building a big one? In this episode, Jean Moncrieff shares hard-won lessons from entrepreneurship, Small Giants, and purpose-driven leadership—revealing how values, people, and intentional growth create long-term success without burnout.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories.
James Dempsey joins Moncrieff with his picks for what to stream. On the list this week:RTE comedy Drama series These Sacred Vows, Netflix documentary on the intense training involved in Ice Dancing Glitter & Gold and Memory of a Killer a 2026 American Crime Drama following a hitman struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories.
James Dempsey joins Moncrieff with his picks for what to stream. On the list this week:RTE comedy Drama series These Sacred Vows, Netflix documentary on the intense traning involved in Ice Dancing Glitter & Gold and Memory of a Killer a 2026 American Crime Drama follwoing a hitman struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's
James Dempsey joins Moncrieff with his picks for what to stream. On the list this week:RTE comedy Drama series These Sacred Vows, Netflix documentary on the intense traning involved in Ice Dancing Glitter & Gold and Memory of a Killer a 2026 American Crime Drama follwoing a hitman struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's
Declan Buckley, and Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories.
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and author of “Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.” She challenges the long-held belief that depression is caused by a lack of the hormone serotonin.“The serotonin myth … was first put out there in the 1960s, then picked up by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s and widely propagated by them as part of their campaign to sell SSRIs, their new generation of antidepressants,” she said.Contrary to what many people still believe, there's no evidence that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin in the brain, Moncrieff said.“A few years ago, we published what's called an umbrella review, a sort of meta review of all the different areas of research that have looked at this. … And we show that there is no consistent or convincing evidence in any of these areas of research for any association between serotonin and depression. So hence, the idea is a myth,” she said.In our interview, she explains how this narrative took hold and how it reshaped modern psychiatry.So what causes depression if not a lack of serotonin? Dr. Moncrieff, who is a professor of critical and social psychiatry at University College London, regards depression as “meaningful human reactions to the circumstances of life now, and that is indeed how people used to think about them.”It's not a biological disease, she said, but a normal reaction that anyone may experience at times throughout life.“It's not something that we naturally just get over in a couple of weeks. It can take weeks and months of grieving, even for a short-term relationship that's finished.”To label deep sadness as a pathological medical condition that needs to be fixed with drugs is the wrong approach and precludes seeing a person “who is suffering, who is going through a period of difficulty and trying to work out what that is and how we can support them with it,” Moncrieff said.Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Declan Buckley, and Barbara Scully and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories. This week...Afghanistan - release female athlete after thirteen days in jailSouth Africa - Mandela's goods cleared for sale by Supreme CourtFiji - 6 charged in relation to country's biggest drug seizureGermany - German nurse jailed for murders could be linked to 100 more deathsEstonia - European Fencing Championship moved from Estonia
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories. This week...Afghanistan - release female athlete after thirteen days in jailSouth Africa - Mandela's goods cleared for sale by Supreme CourtFiji - 6 charged in relation to country's biggest drug seizureGermany - German nurse jailed for murders could be linked to 100 more deathsEstonia - European Fencing Championship moved from Estonia
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Declan Buckley, Amanda Brunker and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
Jonathan DeBurca Butler joins Seán Moncrieff to take listeners through the week's international stories…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Barbara Scully, Declan Buckley and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
Jack Horgan-Jones and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to look back on the week in politics:· The long-anticipated EU-Mercosur trade deal was provisionally approved on Friday, despite the opposition of Ireland, France and three other countries. The deal has been immensely unpopular in Irish political life for a long time, thanks largely to efforts by the farming lobby. But there is now a sense that some figures in the European Commission are disappointed the Government did not make the case for the economic upsides of the deal. · Taoiseach Micheál Martin was in China this week on a four-day visit. Trade was also high on the agenda there, with China eager to import more high-quality food from Ireland. Human rights were mentioned in passing, and there was condemnation by the Taoiseach of Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian regime in Venezuela, the irony seemingly lost on the Fianna Fáil leader given the country he was visiting.· And the Taoiseach's party colleague, Minister for Further and Higher Education James Lawless, wants to ditch the one-bed en suites as the Government looks to move towards a co-living model involving communal space for university accommodation. A bathroom of one's own is a luxury students can go without. Plus, the panel picks their favourite Irish Times pieces of the week:· The Saipan film reopens old wounds for Kevin Kilbane, Seán Moncrieff can't throw away all those old electronic cables, and boycotting Doonbeg is the least we can do to oppose Donald Trump's appetite for war.Would you like to receive daily insights into world events delivered to your inbox? Sign up for Denis Staunton's Global Briefing newsletter here: irishtimes.com/newsletters/global-briefing/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Barbara Scully, Declan Buckley and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas.
Olivia Fahy joins Moncrieff with her picks for what to stream. On the list this week:Season two of The Night Manager a British spy thriller television series, Traitors UK is back for the 4th season this time to its original structure of non celebrity partcipants. And mystery writer Harlen Coben has a new series on Netflix called Run Away
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
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Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
TV Reviewer James Dempsey joined Seán Moncrieff for the weekly TV review slot, TV on the Radio…
In episode 124 we continue to focus on a bleak, isolated island where those infected during the black death were brought here and simply left to die. Then on top of that there was the psychiatric hospital which opened in 1922 and rumours of a mad doctor who carried out all manner of inhumane experiments on patients. Today this island is off limits and very few people on earth have stepped foot on in this plague island, but I'm going to be joined by one of those who have as I am joined by an award-winning journalist, turned award-winning author who loves to spend her free time visiting some of the most haunted places on earth, and this location definitely falls into that category. So join J.H. Moncrieff and I, and let us once again ask together, just how haunted is Poveglia? Thanks to J.H. Moncrieff for being so generous with her time and be sure to check out her website here https://www.jhmoncrieff.com and her book based on Poveglia is The Girl Who Talks to Ghosts that you can find here www.amazon.co.uk/Girl-Talks-Ghosts-GhostWriters-Book-ebook Support How Haunted? by subscribing and leaving a review. Find out more about the pod at https://www.how-haunted.com and you can email Rob at Rob@how-haunted.com You can become a Patreon supporter for as little as £1 a month. You can choose from three tiers and get yourself early access to episodes, and exclusive monthly episodes where Rob will conduct ghost hunts and you'll hear the audio from the night. To sign up, and take advantage of a free seven day trial, visit https://patreon.com/HowHauntedPod Perhaps you'd rather buy me a coffee to make a one off donation to support the pod, you can do that at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/HowHauntedPod Check out the official merch store at how-haunted.dashery.com where you can buy t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, hats, and much more. They come in a vast selection of colours and a wide range of sizes. Music in this episode includes: Darren Curtis – Lurking Evil: https://youtu.be/3i0aVnpeppw " HORROR PIANO MUSIC " composed and produced by "Vivek Abhishek" Music link :https://youtu.be/xbjuAGgk5lU || SUBSCRIBE us on YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/DQQmmCl8crQ || Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/33RWRtP || Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://paypal.me/danieru22?country.x=US&locale.x=en_US Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author based at University College London. Her work examines the foundations of modern psychiatric practice, especially our assumptions about how psychiatric drugs work and why we use them. For decades, the dominant idea has been the disease-centred model: the view that mental disorders are caused by underlying chemical abnormalities, and medications correct those abnormalities. Moncrieff's research challenges this perspective. Instead, she proposes the drug-centred model, which understands psychiatric drugs as substances that create altered mental and emotional states. She views these as states that may sometimes suppress or shift distress, but do not “fix” an underlying chemical imbalance. She is the author of several books, including The Myth of the Chemical Cure, The Bitterest Pills, A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, and her most recent, Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. You can find this here: https://www.amazon.com/Chemically-Imbalanced-Making-Unmaking-Serotonin-ebook/dp/B0F6PV3KDW/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._zaXX8KNlICSU-AUiQzNDq7bgfP19KkXt4L2eCTNmrg.DbyYPE6F4dskAkKDMhKIOqnSJHBeZWjCUnL6pw-BZEM&qid=1764018539&sr=8-2 Her website: https://joannamoncrieff.com/ Critical Psychiatry Network (of which she is a co-chair): https://www.criticalpsychiatry.co.uk/about-us/ Note: Information contained in this video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for treatment or consultation with a mental health professional or business consultant.
Barbara Scully, Declan Buckley and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas live from the Sugar Club in Dublin!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Barbara Scully, Declan Buckley and Seán Moncrieff help tackle listener dilemmas!
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
When renovation crews began digging beneath a small ice cream shop in Vienna, they didn't expect to uncover a gruesome secret. What they found unraveled the double life of Estibaliz Carranza, a woman who hid two murders for years. Dubbed The Ice Lady of Austria, Establiz's crimes spun the media into a frenzy, especially when she was represented by the very same man who defended another of Austria's most notorious criminals. Connect with us on Social Media!You can find us at:Instagram: @bookofthedeadpodX: @bkofthedeadpodFacebook: The Book of the Dead PodcastTikTok: BookofthedeadpodOr visit our website at www.botdpod.comAdams, S. (2017, January 16). Infamous baby-obsessed “ice cream parlour murderer” is so dangerous she'll be jailed with men not women. Daily Mirror. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/infamous-baby-obsessed-ice-cream-9631172Arts - ISKCON - the Hare Krishna Movement. (n.d.). ISKCON - the Hare Krishna Movement. https://www.iskcon.org/about-us/what-is-iskcon.phpBBC News. (2012, November 22). “Ice cream” murder woman gets life sentence in Austria. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20453491Bell, B. (2014, November 16). “Ice cream” killer Carranza publishing memoirs. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30056611Charter, D. (2014, November 17). One last scoop from ice cream parlour murders. The Times. https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/ski-holiday/one-last-scoop-from-ice-cream-parlour-murders-6p8s00c2j33Del Cabo/El Correo, A. (2012, November 22). La descuartizadora Estíbaliz Carranza era «amable y sumisa» con sus examantes. Diario ABC. https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-descuartizadora-amable-sumisa-examantes-201211210000_noticia.html?ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2Finternacional%2Fabci-descuartizadora-amable-sumisa-examantes-201211210000_noticia.htmlEspaña, L. N. (2011, June 13). La descuartizadora mataba por ira y dinero. La Nueva España. https://www.lne.es/sucesos/2011/06/13/descuartizadora-mataba-ira-dinero-21083577.htmlGhosh, S. (2017, January 18). Who is Estibaliz Carranza? Infamous “Ice Cream killer” being moved to All-Male prison in Austria. International Business Times. https://www.ibtimes.com/who-estibaliz-carranza-infamous-ice-cream-killer-being-moved-all-male-prison-austria-2476821“Ice lady” killer buried husband, lover in Vienna cellar. (2012, November 20). NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ice-lady-killer-buried-husband-lover-vienna-cellar-flna1c7172322Jh. (2019, March 6). Scary True Stories: The ice-cream lady - J.H. Moncrieff. J.H. Moncrieff. https://www.jhmoncrieff.com/scary-true-stories-the-ice-cream-lady/Kazim, H. (2018, September 8). “Am I still beautiful?” DER SPIEGEL, Hamburg, Germany. https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/doppelmoerderin-estibaliz-carranza-buch-zelle-14-ueber-die-eislady-a-1226978.htmlKurier.At. (2014, November 14). Die Memoiren der Eislady. Kurier. https://kurier.at/chronik/wien/meine-zwei-leben-die-memoiren-der-eislady/97.062.087#google_vignettePayreder, M., & Peyerl, R. (2020, May 14). Das Geständnis der Estibaliz Carranza. Kurier. https://kurier.at/chronik/wien/das-gestaendnis-der-estibaliz-carranza/1.263.891#google_vignettePiggott, M. (2014, November 16). “Ice Cream Killer” Estibaliz Carranza Publishes Memoir Describing her Horrific Crimes. International Business Times UK. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-cream-killer-estibaliz-carranza-publishes-memoir-describing-her-horrific-crimes-1475063Prodhan, G. (2012, November 23). Austria's “Ice Lady” gets life for double murder. Times Colonist, B9.Reuters. (2012, November 12). “Ice Lady” confesses in deaths of two men. The Leader Post, B9.Velkova, V. (2025, June 12). The Ice Cream Killer: The Chilling Story of Estibaliz Carranza. Medium. https://medium.com/@victoria.vlkva/the-ice-cream-killer-the-chilling-story-of-estibaliz-carranza-8d40c7581cc6If you enjoyed the episode, consider leaving a review or rating! It helps more than you know! If you have a case suggestion, or want attention brought to a loved one's case, email me at bookofthedeadpod@gmail.com with Case Suggestion in the subject line.Stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant.
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
Child Psychotherapist Joanna Fortune joins Seán Moncrieff to answer your parenting questions…
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