Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2009) 15: 221-223. doi: 10.1192/apt.bp.108.006361
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Changing the balance of psychosis treatment

INVITED COMMENTARY ON ... MINIMAL-MEDICATION APPROACHES TO TREATING SCHIZOPHRENIA{dagger}

Joanna Moncrieff

Joanna Moncrieff is a senior lecturer in social and community psychiatry at University College London and an honorary consultant in rehabilitation psychiatry at the North East London Foundation Trust. She has written numerous papers and one book on psychiatric drug treatments, history of psychiatry and research methodology.

Correspondence: Correspondence Dr Joanna Moncrieff, Mental Health Sciences, Wolfson Building, University College London, 48 Riding House Street, London W1N 8AA, UK. Email: j.moncrieff{at}ucl.ac.uk

Antipsychotic medication is the primary form of treatment offered to people diagnosed with schizophrenia or psychosis, but it is associated with severe adverse effects, it is often experienced as unpleasant and its benefits may have been overstated. Therefore, it is important to evaluate research into approaches that aim to minimise the use of this medication. Existing studies suggest that such approaches can be successful and result in avoidance of antipsychotics in a high proportion of clients.


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