The prescription habits of psychiatrists are strongly influenced by pharmaceutical "propaganda", a leading expert in the field has claimed.
Psychiatrist David Healy, writing in the latest issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, was commenting on a paper by Harvard researchers which looked at the psychology of risk and prescriptions of psychotropic drugs.
He said the current "crisis" in psychiatry stemmed from a combination of a lack of independent study, a lack of independent access to what data are available, and an "unsophisticated" interpretation of that data.
He said it was important that clinicians understand the dynamics that impinge on their judgement as it is "almost certainly the case" that pharmaceutical companies engineer clinical perceptions based on side effect profiles.
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