Good Sources On Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal — A Starting Library
February 24, 2026··
This section is for sharing research, news, and media related to antidepressant
and psychiatric drug withdrawal. To kick it off, here are the sources that have
shaped how most of the deprescribing community thinks about this:
Foundational texts (found in resources section):
The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines (Horowitz & Taylor, 2024) —
the most rigorous clinical framework for tapering psychiatric drugs.
Available in the Resources section.
The Ashton Manual (Prof. Heather Ashton, 2002) —
the definitive guide to benzodiazepine withdrawal and tapering.
Free PDF in Resources.
Key research:
Horowitz & Taylor (2019) — "Tapering of SSRI treatment to mitigate
withdrawal symptoms" — the paper that introduced hyperbolic tapering
to mainstream clinical literature
Davies & Read (2019) — meta-analysis showing antidepressant withdrawal
is more common and more severe than previously reported
Glenmullen's Antidepressant Withdrawal Checklist (58 symptoms) —
used in the Learn section assessments
Media worth watching:
Dr. Mark Horowitz interviews on YouTube — practical, accessible,
clinician-facing but understandable by patients
Mad in America — ongoing coverage of psychiatric drug research and
patient experience
Post new research, articles, or media in this section.
Please include the source and date. No paywalled content without summary.
— TaperCommunity Team
One of these days I will train an AI to digest the collected resources and make the complete library queryable by users as an interactive and highly specialized consultant. That day is not so far off as you might imagine. We built a powerful Linux workstation to host a GPU (RTX 5090). I am currently testing medical models locally, that is with no internet security leaks. Integrating such a tool on taper.community is just a matter of time and hardware (so, money).
Meanwhile, everybody should be aware of the awesome Prof. Joanna Moncrieff (Oxford, UK) and especially her book, Chemically Imbalanced. Dr. Moncrieff published a paper that quantifies and qualifies the conclusions of her book. It essentially states the 'psycho'-pharmaceuticals industry (sic) is a scandal equivalent in scope and harms done to the Oxycontin crimes perpetrated by the now immensely wealthy Sackler family. Yeah. Really. Dr. Moncrieff is my hero and a deeply authoritative voice of sanity where none currently prevails!
Seroquel — 350 mg — 15 years — actively tapering | without clinician
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