The purpose of this blog thread is to provide a discussion of serious flaws in currently accepted psychological research methods and an example of an alternative research method more suited to researching psychological issues. In my research, I have interviewed people who have lived with the effects of fluoxetine, whose more well-known trade name is [...]
I have chosen 1952, the year of the discovery of chlorpromazine as the formal starting point of the chain of events which sparked the incredible explosion of pharmaceutical drugs specifically marketed for the field of psychiatry. From the research and development of chlorpromazine and reserpine, another drug causing similar effects, reserpine, flowed all subsequent research [...]
In a very short time, the field of psycho-pharmacology grew from isolated experiments by clinicians on patients in the back wards of hospitals into a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry dominated by the research divisions of huge pharmaceutical companies. In order to understand the acceleration of the widespread use of chemical compounds to treat psychological problems, it is [...]
