David Healy speaking on the Renegade Psych Podcast.

This is a lecture about the history of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibiting (SSRI) group of antidepressants along with how to get better outcomes with an SSRI and avoid the problems they can cause.

Has mental health treatment become a Religion rather than a Science? This talk explores the difference between Treatment with pills or therapies and a Care which pays heed to someone who has a problem or has a story to tell. Is there something wrong in this person or is the problem is Us and its convenient to locate it in 'patients'?

This lecture covers hazards linked to clinical practice more than to the pills themselves. University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine 4th October 2025.

Panel: Kim Witczak, Consumer Representative on FDA Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committees; David Antonuccio, Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada; Professor David Healy. Chair: Deacon Schoenberger. University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine 4th October 2025.

World renowned psychiatrist Dr. David Healy exposes how Big Pharma manipulates science and turns patients into lifelong customers. From the flaws of ‘evidence based’ medicine, this eye-opening conversation reveals the truth behind the marketing of medicine.

Nesh Nikolic speaks with Dr. David Healy about how psychotropic drugs and clinical trials have influenced the way we understand mental health and the broader impact these developments have had on society.

This is a short presentation at an FDA panel on SSRIs in pregnancy - it covers the risk of Autistic Spectrum Disorder. The FDA Panel on Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs) and Pregnancy took place on July 22, 2025.

A podcast conversation with John Wilks from Our Birth Journey covering the safe use of antidepressants, acetaminophen/paracetamol and anticonvulsants during pregnancy.

A critique of SSRIs and pharma's influence on medicine, including SSRI-induced sexual dysfunction, suicidality, and violence.

The Carlat Psychiatry Podcast. Dr. David Healy critiques the widespread use of psychiatric medications, particularly antidepressants like SSRIs, urging a more cautious, patient-centered approach to psychopharmacology and highlighting the need to reassess modern mental health treatment practices.

Dr. David Healy exposes how the pharmaceutical industry manipulates doctors and controls medical research.

The Challenge Homicide on Antidepressants poses Justice Systems'

There is overwhelming evidence from clinical studies and from tragic events that antidepressants can cause homicide. This webinar will explore this effect that SSRIs can have, and explore whether we, as a society and in the court of law, can draw a line between whether a person is 'present' - or not 'present' - at the time a crime is committed. It will also explore cultural, political and legal factors that block acquittals.

This talk outlines what we have learnt from people taking antidepressants about how to manage the difficulties that can be linked to stopping them. Based on the Lived Experience of people on treatment, the talk offers a new model of what is happening and how to manage it.

A New Understanding of Drug Dysregulation Syndrome and How to Manage It. Many people who stop taking SSRI antidepressants experience what is often described as 'protracted withdrawal syndrome'. In this webinar, David Healy presents a different understanding of the biology of this injury: people withdrawing from SSRIs are suffering a 'dysregulation' of their sensory nervous system.

In this episode of Better Way Live, Dr Tess Lawrie and Linda FM Rae discuss the increase in antidepressant use and their long-term withdrawal effects with Dr Ali Ajaz and Professor David Healy.

This lecture given at a Medication Normal meeting outlines changing views on Truth and what we can Trust in both politics and health. It advocates a Relationship Based Medicine as the most truthful and trustworthy form of healthcare today. The slides and text can be found on DavidHealy.org linked to a post Trust, Trust and Health.

Ghosts In The Machine' This lecture given at a Medicating Normal meeting outlines a radical new view about what Antidepressants do and don't do. It covers issues that need input from everyone on how best to move forward with these treatments. The slides and text can be found on RxISK.org in a post called Fantasies of Psychopharmacology.

The Medical Truth Podcast with James Egidio. David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. Before becoming a professor of Psychiatry in Wales and more recently in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Canada, he studied medicine in Dublin and at Cambridge University.

This is a lecture given to the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry in October 2023. The slides and text can be found in a post on DavidHealy.org - Has Healthcare Gone Mad.

Antidepressants & Sex: What You're Not Being Told

This lecture is about our increasing difficulties in getting treatment related issues managed well.

Have mental illnesses become more common?

No such thing as a good antidepressant.

Why depression rates are high in the West?

Qu'ils mangent des médicaments. Dr David Healy. (Let Them Eat Meds by Dr David Healy), Aix-en-Province, 16 June 2023.

This is a talk on the history of evaluating medicines - their benefits and risks.

This was an invited talk for Program on Regulation, Therapeutics and Law run by Aaron Kesselheim and linked to Harvard Medical School.

This is a copy of a public presentation at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta on January 26 2023. It was also a tribute to brave man Dan Johnson and his son Dexter.

White Coat Storm' This is the official version of a lecture in the University of Lethbridge on January 26, 2023 - entitled Beware Doctors Bearing Gifts. As the In Memory of Dexter Johnson post on davidhealy.org tells you, the organizers of the talk and in particular Tom Paul the videographer faced extraordinary challenges - but did a remarkable job in the circumstances. It was a memorable lecture for all who were there - not just for the content.

Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals. Dr. David Healy joins us to discuss his numerous ideas and books on topics like pharmageddon, antidepressive loops, and mental health of children in the post-modern age.

This is a video of an invited lecture given in Mount Sinai Moriningside West Hospital New York on January 18 complete with follow up Q and A.

Dr. David Healy discusses akathisia — what it is, who it affects, and what to watch for, as well as a range of consequences for this treatment-induced harm.

Dr. David Healy highlights the fraudulent tactics of industry and health care in hiding the data and marketing the “science.” The conversation addresses the processes of drug approval research, what’s changed, who’s doing the writing, and what data is being used?

Discussion with Dr. David Healy highlighting randomized controlled trials, why you can’t always trust the “science,” and the importance of your hunch or gut feeling when treatment goes wrong and how it’s your best guide to avoid unnecessary harm.

This was a lecture to Nurse Prescribers in Holland in a Conference on Suicide.

Prof David Healy is a psychiatrist, scientist, psychopharmacologist, and author. David’s main areas of research are clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.

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David Healy is a psychiatrist and author, and founder and CEO of Data Based Medicine Limited. He is a former Secretary of the British Association for Psychopharmacology, and has authored more than 220 peer-reviewed articles, 300 other pieces, and 25 books.

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Lecture on October 5th to Royal Society of Medicine on history of psychiatry.

This is part 3 of a Swedish workshop: Girl who Eats Salt

This is part 2 of a Swedish workshop.

This is part 1 of a Swedish workshop: Girl with a Clinical Trial Tattoo.

Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD): history and relevance - David Healy (Republic of Ireland); Explanatory Processes and Diagnosis of PSSD: what do we still need to know? - Yacov Reisman (the Netherlands); Q&A Session led by the moderator.

Sex & Post SSRI EMB Dysfunction

TI Best Evidence Webinar: Sex and post-SSRI evidence-based medicine dysfunction. The Therapeutics Initiative (TI) mission is to provide physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, allied health professionals & the public with up-to-date, independent, evidence-based, practical information on healthcare interventions. To reduce bias as much as possible the TI is an independent organization, separate from government, pharmaceutical industry and other vested interest groups. We strongly believe in the need for independent assessments of evidence on drug therapy to balance the drug industry sponsored information sources.

Prof Kevin Moore in Conversation with David Healy

Prof David Healy The Shipwreck of the Singular

What is PGAD?

Regulators, government health officials and guideline makers know that the literature on medicines is almost completely ghost-written and dangerous. But they say its not their job to police this problem. This is what killed Stephen O'Neill.

Antidepressants can make us permanently sexually dysfunctional. This has been known for decades but not spoken about. Those affected are left desperate and often take their own lives. We need research on what is going on - and we need it now.

Antidepressants affect sexual functioning in everyone. This was known from the 1960s but was written out of the script. The effects can be strange and permanently - lasting decades after stopping treatment.

Clinical trials are sold as offering the gold standard information on what drugs do. They don't. They are the best way ever invented to hide the problems drugs can cause. This lecture shows you why your hunch about what your drug is doing is likely better than the information you might get from clinical trials.

Neo-Liberalism is a mystery word - no-one quite know what it means. But if you work in healthcare you encounter it everyday and see why and how we need to move beyond neo-liberalism.

The inquest of Stephen O'Neill - a crystal clear case of a man killed by his antidepressant and his doctors - a good case to force the inquest system to recognise treatment induced death - something it cannot now recognise. Your help is needed to make this happen.

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Lecture given on 15th October at the faculty of Laënnec, iCAP Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Part 2 of 2.

Lecture given on 15th October at the faculty of Laënnec, iCAP Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Part 1 of 2.

Sex, Antidepressants and Neoliberalism. Some medications, including antidepressants, can have a lasting effect on sex life. During this conference, Prof. David Healy will discuss how drug treatments sometimes go wrong, the difficulty of affected patients to have the harm suffered recognized and their inability to obtain judicial compensation. Maison des Sciences de Humaine Alpes (MSH-Alpes) is a service and research unit of the CNRS and the University of Grenoble Alpes.

Dr. Healy talks with Sheila Hamilton about a common side effect of SSRI’s, sexual dysfunction.

Shipwreck in Maastricht' David Healy. MHeNs Translational Neuroscience Lecuture 2019.

Professor David Healy discusses with Psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud some surprising research evidence on the impact of these drugs on children.

Much of the apparently scientific literature on drug safety and effectiveness is ghost-written by the pharmaceutical industry, but published under the names of eminent academic researchers. Typically the research data are unavailable to experts, regulators, the legal system or the public. David Healy will discuss what this means for the public, for patients, for doctors and for science through the story of the famous clinical trial that claimed the anti-depressant, Paxil, was safe to use for children.

David Healy plenary talk "Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees" from 2014 UCLA/ISEPP Conference "Transforming Mad Science" in Los Angeles, CA.

Presentation and panel discussion titled "Medical Citizenship: Challenges and Prospects Through a Mental Health Lens" with Dr. David Healy.

Dr. David Healy presents "What the antidepressant story tells us about recovery" at the 2015 Yale Symposium: New Data and New Hopes Call for New Practices in Clinical Psychiatry.

Many now argue that categories of mental illness have little basis in nature. Is it time to abandon psychiatry and its classifications? The Panel: Dinesh Bhugra, David Healy and Richard Bentall debate the future of psychiatry.

Prof David Healy reviews the history of Study 329 on the eve of becoming the most famous clinical trial ever.

Lecture of Prof.David Healy entitled "Pharmageddon: Slow Medicine" at the conference "Infelici e Tristi, O Malati di Depressione?" Approccio critico alle terapie farmacologiche in psichiatria con esperti internazionale. (Unhappy and Sad, Or Suffering from Depression? Critical Approach to Pharmacological Therapies in Psychiatry with International Experts) Trieste, 17 May 2014.

Dr David Healy, a psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist and scientist who's been described as the doctor big pharma can't shut up, joins us live for a discussion about how the pharmaceutical industry works. Data manipulation, cherry-picking evidence and flawed clinical trials will all be up for discussion.

Dr. David Healy "Prescription Drug Induced Violence" Side Effects Seminar.

Interview with David Healy, M.D., author of "Pharmageddon" at Selling Sickness 2013 conference in Washington DC. His book was featured in Booktivism.

David Healy - Department of Psychiatry, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom presenting at INSUBRIA SUMMER SCHOOL ON CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY "The rational use of CNS drugs" Varese , 24th-28th June 2013

A talk by Prof David Healy from the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University. The talk was presented at the Cardiff University School of Psychology on 30th April 2013.

A talk by Prof David Healy from the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences at Cardiff University. The talk was presented at the Cardiff University School of Psychology on 26th November 2012.

SSRI and psychiatric drug expert Prof David Healy's lecture in Trinity College Dublin. Here he discusses 'evidence based medicine' and his new book Pharmageddon.

Evidence-based medicine and industry-controlled drug trials are leading to an over reliance and unnecessary treatment by prescription.

Mistrust over SSRIs abounds because of their perceived over-use and initially under-reported side-effects and risks. Are SSRIs the bane of psychiatry, or have they been a panacea for people suffering from depression and anxiety disorders?

Dr. Aubrey Blumsohn & Prof. David Healy take questions at the Radical Statistics conference 2012 "Mis-measurement of health and wealth" Friday 24 February, 2012 British Library Conference Centre, London.

Prof. David Healy speaking at the Radical Statistics conference 2012 "Mis-measurement of health and wealth" Friday 24 February, 2012 British Library Conference Centre, London.

Lecture given by David Healy for The Ghent University Association (AUGent) at Ghent University College, Ghent, Belgium.

David Healy, psychiatrist and Cardiff University professor addresses the question: Can Industrialized and Marketized Healthcare be Made Universally Available? Mar 25, 2009 at Cornell University.

This talk explores the adverse effects of treatment, clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). There has been recent concern about interactions between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. In this seminar David Healy explores the basis for the current sense of crisis. The method and approach taken is historical. The analysis outlines the roles that brands, patents, and the control of the scientific literature play in the current marketing of psychotropic drugs, and describes the processes of guideline capture and brand fascism. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

Delivered at Bethune College in Toronto on February 27, 2003.