Dr John Read
@ReadReadj
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Professor, Clinical Psychology, University of East London. Chair, International Institute for Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal https://t.co/LRU5M9fsPz. Opinions my own
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Joined February 2014
Survey Finds Most ECT Patients Suffer Long-term Memory Loss | Psychology Today
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In our international survey, 71 percent of ECT patients reported reduced ability to retain new information, and 80 percent reported loss of autobiographical memories of events before ECT.
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AD4E Festival - Dr Lucy Johnstone interviews Professor John Read https://t.co/1evmkUuuWP via @YouTube
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A Hospital Surgeon Falls Victim to Psychiatry by Phillip S. I had been a prestigious obstetrician and gynaecologist for 22 years. Then my world started to collapse, and I made an appointment with a psychiatrist. https://t.co/oz6d7lpNIy
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@ProfRobHoward @drokane @oncopharmacist But the patients who ECT has irrevocably harmed are completely ignored and denied a voice.
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@ReadReadj What a crock of BS -at least in the USA The anesthesiologists never see the patient after ECT Those I have spoken to are aware that Anesthesiologists are as guilty as psychiatrists for allowing the ECT scandal to continue Many many refuse to participate in ECT Reminder
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@samhall404 @jill_d35 @JohnElsey11 @pash22 @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk And going back to the false allegation about me, this represents that same behaviour. An allegation based entirely on social media gossip, an allegation which has no foundation but it indicates a certain attitude to patient complaints, one that is unacceptable in my view.
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@ReadReadj The more he posts the more the world can see he has no science to support his ECT pushing He reverts to insults and denigrating those disabled by ECT
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Can you support that claim about anaesthetists.? When do they see the patients afterwards? How long afterwards? Research? Or just another unsubstantiated assertion?
@drokane @oncopharmacist And the greatest advocates for ECT are patients who have found it helpful and (interestingly) anaesthetists who see the improvement in the patients they put to sleep for us so that they can receive treatment safely.
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But since there is no evidence it reduces depression better than placebo beyond the end of treatment you cant claim it cures the medical illnesses you say are caused by depression by curing depression.
@Eriksenjohn6 Severe depression can increase your risk of dying from many physical illnesses.
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Medical Organizations Turn Blind Eye to Harms of Maternal Antidepressant Use: A Conversation With Adam Urato and Joanna Moncrieff By Robert Whitaker https://t.co/MHK44JQT1G
#MaternalHealth #SSRIRisk #InformedConsent #EvidenceBasedMedicine #CriticalPsychiatry #PublicHealthDebate
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Pod cast discusses how after an FDA panel highlights risks, medical organizations blame it on the illness, rather than the drug.
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October 2025 in Review Visit our website to catch up with any blogs you may have missed! https://t.co/dZSW4CkJIx
#MadInTheUK #VoicesForChange #MentalHealthdebate #mentalhealthdiscourse #MentalHealthReform #PsychiatricSurvivor #MadInTheUK #EndPsychAbuse #MentalHealthJustice
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I'll be talking at this event online next Friday, alongside some wonderful speakers. Check it out👇 https://t.co/95T27KX3An
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AD4E festival 2025: A whole day of change-making talks, presentations, conversations - all challenging the culture of diagnosis & disorder!
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@JohnElsey11 @pash22 @benzosarebad @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk I hear that, and I appreciate it. But some of those causing harm are the very people you support here; people running for leadership in influential institutions that have allowed this damage to continue unchecked for decades.
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@JohnElsey11 @pash22 @benzosarebad @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk Aligning with someone who documents real suffering isn’t an “echo chamber,” it’s solidarity with evidence and lived experience. If anything, your insistence on dismissing harmed patients shows how detached you are from reality and accountability.
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@JohnElsey11 @pash22 @benzosarebad @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk I’ve searched FF’s history objectively. What I see is a patient advocate tirelessly supporting harmed patients, something you and many others you support seem incapable of understanding.
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@JohnElsey11 @pash22 @benzosarebad @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk I’ve also shared my story in Parliament and with NHS England and NHS Pharmacy leadership to highlight what hundreds of thousands of patients endure. I also have two interviews lined up with major media outlets and will continue to do more when I’m able.
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@JohnElsey11 @pash22 @benzosarebad @ReadReadj @HengartnerMP @PloederlM @ProfRobHoward @Harry_Costello @gmcuk Or missed opportunities to learn …
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I frequently ponder the absense of #Medicalethics at the @MaudsleyDebates. I watched as an an ECT device rep (paid by the device manufacturer) debated ECT safety with a physician injured by ECT His closing argument: ECT uses less electricity than a banana. I now have a dress to
@Altostrata @RStrumila @PGtzsche1 Considering MECTA #Medicaldevice rep, Prof Declan McLoughlin, told @MaudsleyDebates attendees #ECT uses electricity equivalent of banana & @WendyBurn heralded ECT as “miraculous,” little’s changed re Drs’ unsubstantiated claims since lobotomy.#AuditECT #MedTwitter #ECTAS @rcpsych
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The Elephant in The Mental Health Room | Paul Taylor & Professor John Read https://t.co/cORH8MOKn8 via @YouTube
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An attempt to explain my positions in more depth than possible on X etc., and present the evidence base for my views.
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If you have nothing to hide (which I suspect you probably have not) then you can’t use this imagined making complaints against psychiatrists allegation as an excuse for denigrating this person
What a horrible way to try to discredit someone who raises concerns about damage to patients. Who have they ever reported, since you know so much about it.And were they guilty?) (And what are you worried she might report to the GMC about you Ash?)
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