360° Health: How to Understand Depression and Where We Have Gone Wrong
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It's Your Life with Dr. James JC Cooley a motivational speaker here to equip you to strive for greatness and overcome adversity. Life is a series of circles and cycles, phases, and stages. These are the experiences that teach you the lessons of life. You can either ignore them or EMBRACE them. Dr. Cooley offers motivation and inspiration for life's challenges.
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Monday, January 19, 2026
Show Highlights
· It’s Your Life With Dr James JC Cooley and Co-Host Dr Michael Mantell- Rational Emotive & Cognitive Behavior Coach have a sit-down conversation with
Joanna Moncrieff -- Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London
· Is depression caused by a chemical imbalance?
· What are antidepressants and why are we taking them?
· Do antidepressants help?
· Why have we got things so wrong?
Biography
Joanna Moncrieff is a Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and has also worked as a consultant psychiatrist in the NHS in London for over 20 years. She writes about the nature of mental health problems, how to treat them and how not to treat them. She has led large UK government-funded research studies. She is author of numerous scientific papers and several books about psychiatric drugs including her most recent, Chemically Imbalanced: the making and unmaking of the serotonin myth (Flint Books, 2025). Her website is https://joannamoncrieff.com/, Twitter handle @joannamoncrieff
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