article_snippet.sent: ‘a notion that later transmuted into the idea that they remedied a chemical imbalance’.
article_snippet.sent: psychiatrist Professor David Healy said: ‘For doctors it provided an easy short hand for communication with patients.
article_snippet.sent: For patients, the idea of correcting an abnormality has a moral force that can be expected to overcome the scruples some might have had about taking a tranquilliser, especially when packaged in the appealing form that distress is not a weakness.
article_snippet.sent: However, other psychiatrists have refuted psychiatrist Professor David Healy’s claims, saying the profession has moved on from a simplistic description of the pills correcting a chemical imbalance.
article_snippet.sent: ’s claims, saying the profession has moved on from a simplistic description of the pills correcting a chemical imbalance warned the controversy might harm depressed patients if ’s claims, saying the profession has moved on from a simplistic description of the pills correcting a chemical imbalance were deterred from taking the drugs, which had been proved to work in trials and the ‘real world’.
article_snippet.sent: Writing in the journal Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Dr Canli said: 'It is time for an entirely different approach. '
article_snippet.sent: People should not change People current medication on the basis of this editorial alone.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Healy’s editorial says Professor Healy’s editorial is important to raise questions about the drugs.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Healy’s editorial said: ‘In other areas of life the products we use, from computers to microwaves, improve year on year, but this is not the case for medicines, where this year’s treatments may achieve blockbuster sales despite being less effective and less safe than yesterday’s models.
article_snippet.sent: Other psychiatrists warned the controversy might harm depressed patients if Other psychiatrists were deterred from taking the drugs, which had been proved to work in trials and the ‘real world’
article_snippet.sent: Dr Paul Keedwell, Consultant Psychiatrist and Specialist in Mood Disorders, said:
article_snippet.sent: In so doing Professor Healy has risked deterring individuals with severe depression from getting the help they need and this latest article just adds to this problem.
highlights_snippet.sent: David Healy is head of psychiatry at the Hergest psychiatry unit in Bangor .
  