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Medication: What do we know about psychiatric drugs, and how can we learn more about what is effective?

Although psychiatry helped writer Horatio Clare when he was in crisis, some people in difficulty, their families, clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists themselves will tell you there are serious questions about the ways psychiatry understands and treats some people in trouble. And so this series asks a simple question: is psychiatry working? In the following series, accompanied by the psychiatrist Femi Oyebode, Horatio traces a journey through crisis, detention, diagnosis, therapy, and recovery. In this episode, with the help of patients and clinicians, they consider medication.

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Presenters: Horatio Clare and Femi Oyebode
Producer: Emma Close
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Mix: James Beard

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30 minutes

Last on

Mon 28 Aug 2023 21:30

Broadcasts

  • Fri 10 Feb 2023 11:00
  • Mon 13 Feb 2023 21:00
  • Mon 28 Aug 2023 09:00
  • Mon 28 Aug 2023 21:30