By Dr Martin Whitely Editor PsychWatch Australia According to its website the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)...

Earlier this month, nine members of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) wrote to their College...

Below is a copy of a letter objecting to misleading information on the RANZCP website, claiming that psychotropic 'medications work by...

Mounting evidence that taking antidepressants increases the risk of suicide among young Australians has triggered the Albanese Government...

The Issue Update (PDF available above) details the progress of the TGA's Review into the relationship between antidepressant use and...

In September 2020 Australia’s independent medical product safety regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), rejected an...

In 2020 the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) commissioned a review of antidepressant use, mental health and related...

Available online in paperback ($29.95) or e-book ($11.95) or in selected bookstores. What the experts say: As a teacher and...

By Martin Whitely Last month, well before today's easing of Melbourne's lockdown, a group of ten GPs co-signed an open letter to...

by Dr Martin Whitely Led by prominent psychiatrist and former Australian of the year Patrick McGorry, youth mental health research...

Last Sunday (14 June 2020) the Sydney Morning Herald reported Australian Government Health Minister Greg Hunt had instructed his...

New research from Curtin University and the University of Adelaide has shown rates of antidepressant use and suicide by young Australians...

In the decade since Fiona Stanley said “the vast majority of kids on ADHD drugs are on drugs unnecessarily" the number drugged has doubled.

The Productivity Commission’s draft mental health report, released last week, includes a bombshell recommendation, so far overlooked by Aust

A WA psychiatrist prescribed amphetamine to 2,074 people in 2015. How much money does Dr 2074 make giving ADHD patients a daily drug habit?

Hengartner found that "the rate of (attempted) suicide [in adults] was about 2.5 times higher in antidepressant arms relative to placebo".

In 2004, the US FDA warned that using antidepressants was associated with an increased (approximately doubled) risk of suicidal thoughts and

By Dr Martin Whitely and Dr Melissa Raven Enquiries to psychwatchaustralia@gmail.com According to the OECD, in both 2000 and 2015,...

Bad psychiatrists love lists and ticking boxes. During consultations, they ignore the individual in front of them, and look to tick...

...drug companies have been able to masterfully game our hidden, industry friendly, system. Without reform, , of FOI, political donation...