Professor Joanna Moncrieff
Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the Critical Psychiatry Network.
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MEET THE PSYCHIATRIST DEBUNKING THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE MYTH THAT FOOLED MILLIONS!
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist, researcher, and author of The Myth of the Chemical Cure and Chemically Imbalanced, whose work has radically challenged one of the most powerful ideas in modern psychiatry — that depression is caused by a serotonin imbalance. Her landmark 2022 review in Molecular Psychiatry dismantled the serotonin hypothesis, exposing how Big Pharma turned a shaky theory into a multi‑billion‑dollar industry.
DOCTORS WON'T TELL YOU THIS! - DARK TRUTH ABOUT ANTIDEPRESSANTS & HOW BIG PHARMA FOOLED EVERYONE
Joanna explains how the widely accepted belief that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance or serotonin deficiency has little scientific evidence to support it. This theory, which became popularised in the 1990s through pharmaceutical industry marketing, has fundamentally changed how we view our emotions and mental health.
JOANNA MONCRIEFF ON THE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE MYTH, SSRI HARM, AND THE CRISIS IN MODERN PSYCHIATRY
For decades, millions have been told a simple story: depression is caused by a chemical imbalance—specifically, low serotonin—and antidepressants correct it. But what if that story was never true? In this powerful and urgent episode of Moral Medicine, psychiatrist and researcher Dr. Joanna Moncrieff joins us to expose how one of the most influential myths in modern medicine took hold—and the profound harm it's caused.
ANITDEPRESSANTS ARE LIKE ALCOHOL OR CANNABIS | JOANNA MONCRIEFF
Joanna Moncrieff's 2022 study 'The Serotonin Theory of Depression: A Systematic Umbrella Review of the Evidence' concluded that there was no link between serotonin and depression, debunking the mainstream medical belief in antidepressants. Moncrieff, whose research has drawn criticism from 'Big Pharma' and support from fringe figures on the right, speaks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy in the latest episode of Ways to Change the World.
JOANNA MONCRIEFF : THE SEROTONIN MYTH OF DEPRESSION
In this conversation, I speak with Joanna Moncrieff on the role (or lack of) of serotonin in depression. Joanna has written several books in the field of critical psychiatry, most recently publishing 'The Serotonin Myth Of Depression'.
DEPRESSION: DISEASE OF THE BRAIN OR A STATE OF MIND? CONVERSATION WITH DR JOANNA MONCRIEFF
'Depression is like a barometer. It's something that indicates that everything is not right within your life, that something is going wrong', says Dr Joanna Moncrieff, a psychiatrist and a professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London. Is depression a disease of the brain or a state of mind? What are antidepressants and what is their mechanism of action? Is there a drug that cures depression? Are antidepressants addictive? What is the difference between addiction and physical dependence? What are the withdrawal symptoms and why is it easy to mistake them for a relapse? These are some of the questions we will answer in this conversation.
DR JOANNA MONCRIEFF | CHEMICAL IMBALANCE: TRUTH OR MYTH | MH360°
MH360° presents a special talk by Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, the celebrated British psychiatrist and academic at University College London, whose 2022 study investigating the ‘Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression’ has taken the world by storm.
As one of the founding members and leading figures in the Critical Psychiatry Network, Joanna is a prominent critic of the modern ‘psychopharmacological’ model of mental disorder and drug treatment, and the role of the pharmaceutical industry in mental healthcare.
Joanna is also one of the founding members of the Critical Psychiatry network, a group of psychiatrists from around the world who are skeptical of the idea that mental disorders simply brain diseases, and of the dominance of the pharmaceutical industry in the mental health discourse.
M&M DEPRESSION, SEROTONIN, SSRIS, PSYCHIATRY & SOCIAL MEDIA | JOANNA MONCRIEFF | #88
Dr. Joanna Moncrieff talks about depression. What causes it? How do SSRIs work? How well do antidepressants work? What are the risks & benefits of long-term antidepressant use? What is the evidence that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance (too little serotonin) in the brain? How is social media & technology influencing mental health?
HUMANIA PART 2: MONCRIEFF, THE MYTH OF THE CHEMICAL CURE
The nature of psychiatric drugs, what we know and don’t know about what they do to the brain with repeated and long-term use and how these changes affect the experience of withdrawal; study on antidepressant withdrawal and antipsychotic withdrawal.
PSYCHIATRY'S VERY OWN DELUSION (DR. JOANNA MONCRIEFF)
Critical psychiatrist Dr. Joanna Moncrieff joins us to explore the history and development of psychiatric medication, why there is little, if any, evidence to support the idea that psychiatric medication is correcting a “chemical imbalance” or any other underlying cause of mental illness, why the disease-centred model of mental health issues is both misleading and disempowering to service users, and ultimately, why much of the “science” supporting psychiatric medication is based more on ideology than evidence.
