Psychiatric drugs aren’t always the answer | Letter

2026-02-11 - 17:15

Talking therapies have made huge progress and should be more widely available, writes Ann Marie Taylor Yes, there has been a shocking lack of progress in developing transformative psychiatric medicine (We need new drugs for mental ill-health, 5 February), but this may be because in mental health, drugs are not always the answer (see, for example, Richard P Bentall’s Doctoring the Mind). Huge progress has been made in the effectiveness of talking therapies – for example, free effective treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is available to all UK army veterans through the charity PTSD Resolution. Continue reading...