Prof Irving Kirsch he explores 'The Placebo Effect Versus Antidepressants.'

Dr. Michael Yapko and Dr. Irving Kirsch joined Mindset Health’s Claire Davidson to discuss the role of antidepressants in managing depression. Dr. Kirsch shares insights into his landmark research on the placebo effect and its curious relationship to the presumed merits of antidepressant medications. Dr. Yapko discusses drug treatment limitations based on the substantial evidence indicating that depression is a social problem more than a medical one.

In this episode of Feeling Good with Dr. David Burns, we cover a wide range of topics with Dr. Irving Kirsch, including a patient-level reanalysis of all of the data on the effects of antidepressant medications versus placebos submitted to the FDA.

Treatment Expectation Webinar Series: Irving Kirsch - Hope and expectancy as determinants of placebo and nocebo effects. CRC-TRR 289 "Treatment Expectation" The transregional DFG (German Research Foundation) collaborative research centre (CRC/Transregio 289) entitled "Treatment Expectation" is an interdisciplinary team investigating the impact of patient expectation on the efficacy of medical treatments.

Irving Kirsch in conversation with Amir Raz, Ph.D. Founding Director of the Brain Institute

Irving Kirsch - The Emperor's New Drug: Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect. Chapman University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioural Sciences.

Irving Kirsch - Antidepressants and the Placebo Effect. Chapman University, Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioural Sciences.

Are antidepressants harmful? Do their side effects outweigh their benefits? Should you avoid using them except in the most critical cases? The answers to these questions only matter if the medications you’re taking actually work. And, particularly in the case of psychotherapy drugs, the answer is not always a clear one.

Discover how Prof Irving Kirsch's pioneering work in the 70s has shaped the scientific interest in how the mind and body interact. Author of pivotal studies on depression, pain, non-deceptive placebos and much more.

"The Relevance of Expectation and Placebo Effects in Medicine." Prof. Dr. Irving Kirsch talks to Bernhard Trenkle about the current results on expectation and placebo effects. He describes how, after years of replication, it has been confirmed again and again that there is only a minimal difference between the effect of actual medical treatment and placebo treatment and that this is in fact not clinically relevant.

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Meta-analysis of published antidepressant trials.

Dr. Irving Kirsch, guest at the XVII AIAMC Congress "CBT and scientific psychotherapy, new perspectives", organized by the Watson Institute, talks to us about the myth of antidepressants and the placebo effect. 24-26 September 2015 Torino, Italy.

University of Missouri Department of Psychological Sciences. Distinguished Lecture Series, 2013-2014. March 13, 2014

Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and a lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Irving Kirsch presents at the Sixth JEMH (Journal of Ethics in Mental Health) Conference on Ethics in Mental Health. November 28-30, 2012 Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Professor Irving Kirsch, discusses the current controversy regarding treatments for depression. In his recent book The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth, Irving Kirsch argued that many drugs that are licensed for use are ineffective and potentially harmful. Irving is in discussion with Simon Love, who runs a Mental Health organisation called Cerebral Health. Simon brings personal experience to bear in discussing the implications of Irving's work for mental health care and, in particular, for the treatment of depression.

Antidepressants are useful in treatment of depression - Opponent / Irving Kirsch (EN) - The 4th International Congress on Psychopharmacology - 23-27 November 2011 Antalya, Turkey.