Professor David Healy

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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