Publications
Featured papers
- Jureidini J, McHenry L B. The illusion of evidence based medicine. BMJ 2022; 376 :o702 doi:10.1136/bmj.o702 (Altmetrics 5,317).
- Jureidini J, Moncrieff J, Klau J, Aboustate N, Raven M (2023). Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2023;0(0). doi:10.1177/00048674231218623 (Altmetrics 66).
- Klau J, Gonzalez-Chica D, Raven M, Jureidini J (2023). Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in children and adolescents attending Australian general practice in 2011 and 2017. JCPP Advances, e12208. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12208 (Altmetrics 64).
- O’Rourke P, Jureidini J, Bentovim D. The Maternal Looking Guide: a perinatal clinical tool to support the emerging mother-infant relationship’, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2021.1991566.
- Le Noury J, Nardo, JM, Healy D, Jureidini J, Raven M, Tufanaru C, Abi-Jaoude E. Restoring Study 329: efficacy and harms of paroxetine and imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence . BMJ 2015;351:4320. (Altmetrics 1,461).
- Aboustate N, Jureidini J, Woodman R, Le Noury J, Klau J, Abi-Jaoude E, Raven M. Restoring TADS: RIAT reanalysis of the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2025 May 27:9246479251337879. doi: 10.1177/09246479251337879.
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Recommended reading
Work by the CEMH:
Jureidini J, McHenry L. The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine. Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research. Wakefield Press, 2020.
Available through Wakefield Press and on Kindle.


Work by our colleagues:
Whitely, M. Over-prescribing Madness: What's driving Australia's mental illness epidemic. Wilkinson Publishing. 2021.
Available through Wilkinson Publishing and Kindle.
Pigott HE, Kim T, Xu C, et al. What are the treatment remission, response and extent of improvement rates after up to four trials of antidepressant therapies in real-world depressed patients? A reanalysis of the STAR*D study’s patient-level data with fidelity to the original research protocol. BMJ Open. 2023;13:e063095. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063095
Open access, available at BMJ Open.
All CEMH publications
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All papers
2025
- Niu H, Bedggood M, Jenkins M, Pathan S, Saeed D, Jureidini J. Genocide in Gaza: moral and ethical failures of medical institutions. Lancet June 13, 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/.
- Jureidini J, Dunbar M. (2025) Medical Malpractice: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In: Payne-James, J., Byard, R.W. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Third edition, vol. 3, pp. 550–554. UK: Elsevier.
- Aboustate N, Jureidini J, Woodman R, Le Noury J, Klau J, Abi-Jaoude E, Raven M. Restoring TADS: RIAT reanalysis of the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2025 May 27:9246479251337879. doi: 10.1177/09246479251337879.PMID: 40421808.
2024
- Walsh J, Caldwell D, Jureidini J. Evaluative Language in Sports: Crowds, Coaches, and Commentators. Routledge, 2024.
- Judd J, Pilkington RM, Malvaso C, Procter AM, Montgomerie A, Anderson JJ, Jureidini JN, Petersen J, Lynch J, Chittleborough CR. Mental health-related hospitalisations of adolescents and their contact with child protection services to age 11 years, South Australia: a whole-of-population descriptive study. Med J Aust. 2024 Nov 18;221(10):540-545. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52489. Epub 2024 Oct 21. PMID: 39433873.
- Baum F, Raven M, Jureidini J, Fisher M, van den Berg M. Challenges in addressing youth mental health. Lancet Psychiatry. 2024 Dec;11(12):957-958. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00327-4. PMID: 39572113.
- Mahdanian AA, Rosen A, Jureidini J, Puras D. A call to avoid psychiatric labelling in a historic election year. The Lancet Psychiatry. 2024 Jan;11(3):168-169. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(24)00009-9.
2023
- Jureidini J, Moncrieff J, Klau J, Aboustate N, Raven M. Treatment guesses in the Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study: Accuracy, unblinding and influence on outcomes. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry. 2023. doi:10.1177/00048674231218623.
- Klau J, Gonzalez-Chica D, Raven M, Jureidini J (2023). Antipsychotic prescribing patterns in children and adolescents attending Australian general practice in 2011 and 2017. JCPP Advances, e12208. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12208.
- O’Rourke P, Jureidini J, Ben-Tovim D (2023). The Maternal Looking Guide: a perinatal clinical tool to support the emerging mother-infant relationship. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 41:3, 301- 318, doi: 10.1080/02646838.2021.1991566.
- Wood SJ, Ilomäki J, Gould J, Tan GS, Raven M, Jureidini JN, Grzeskowiak LE (2023). Dispensing of psychotropic medications to Australian children and adolescents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2013–2021: a retrospective cohort study. Med J Aust, 219: 18-25. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.51948.
2022
- Aboustate N & Jureidini J. Barriers to access to clinical trial data: Obstruction of a RIAT reanalysis of the treatment for adolescents with depression study. Int J Saf Med, 2022 Oct 26, DOI: 10.3233/JRS-210022
- Jureidini J. They Measured My Head in Humane Alternatives to the Psychiatric Model (p187-193). Eds. Eric Maisel & Chuck Ruby (2022).
- Klau J, Bernardo CO, Gonzalez-Chica DA, Raven M, Jureidini J. Trends in prescription of psychotropic medications to children and adolescents in Australian primary care from 2011 to 2018. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2022 Nov;56(11):1477-1490. doi: 10.1177/00048674211067720. Epub 2021 Dec 28. PMID: 34963342.
- Mills S (2022) The scientific integrity of ADHD: A critical examination of the underpinning theoretical constructs. Front. Psychiatry 13:1062484. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1062484.
- Jureidini J, McHenry LB (2022) The illusion of evidence based medicine. BMJ; 376:o702 doi:10.1136/bmj.o702.
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Keren, M., Foley, M., Weatherston, D. J., Puura, K., & O’Rourke, P. (Eds.)(2022). Global Perspectives on the Transdisciplinary Field of Infant Mental Health 1993 - 2021: WAIMH eBooks Topical Resource Guide, Volume 1. Finland: World Association of Infant Mental Health.
2021
- Todd, T. “Epistemic injustice” in the administration of mental health legislation. Psychosis, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2020.1853204.
- Klau J, Bernardo CDO, Gonzalez-Chica DA, Raven M, Jureidini J. Trends in prescription of psychotropic medications to children and adolescents in Australian primary care from 2011 to 2018. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 Dec 28. DOI:10.1177/00048674211067720
- Mills S. ADHD as Cargo Cult Science. Mad in America 20 November 2021. https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/11/adhd-as-cargo-cult-science/
- O’Rourke P, Jureidini J, Bentovim D. The Maternal Looking Guide: a perinatal clinical tool to support the emerging mother-infant relationship’, Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 2021. DOI: 10.1080/02646838.2021.1991566.
- Jureidini J (2021, August 18). Why universal childcare would be our greatest investment. The Canberra Times: Opinion. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7392259/why-universal-childcare-would-be-our-greatest-investment/
2020
- Jureidini J, McHenry L. The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine. Exposing the crisis of credibility in clinical research. Wakefield Press, 2020.
- Jureidini J. Are you being managed? Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Published online on September 8, 2020. DOI:https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2020.094
- Whitely M, Raven M, Jureidini J. Antidepressant prescribing and suicide/self-harm in young Australians: Regulatory warnings, contradictory advice, and long- term trends. Frontiers in Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 05 June 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00478
- Daya I, Maylea C, Raven M, Hamilton B, Jureidini J. (letter) Defensive rhetoric in psychiatry: an obstacle to health and human rights. Lancet Psychiatry. 2020 Mar;7(3):231.
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O’Rourke, PM. (2020) Working therapeutically with infants in the child protection system: Reflections by Dr Patricia O’Rourke. Perspectives in Infant Mental Health 28 (2) 7-13. Summer
2019
- Cosgrove L, Jureidini J. Why a rights-based approach is not anti-psychiatry. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2019, 53:503-504
- Whitely, M., Raven, M., Timimi, S., Jureidini, J., Phillimore, J., Leo, J., Moncrieff, J. & Landman, P. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder late birthdate effect common in both high and low prescribing international jurisdictions: systematic review. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2019, 60 (4), 380– 391.
- Healy D, Le Noury J, Jureidini J. Paediatric antidepressants: Benefits and risks International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine 2019;30(1):1-7
2018
- Plevin D, Jureidini J, Howell S, Smith N. Paediatric antiepileptic polytherapy: systematic review of efficacy and neurobehavioural effects and a tertiary centre experience. Acta Paediatr. 2018 Mar 30. doi: 10.1111/apa.14343.
- Parker L, Bero L, Gillies D, Raven M, Mintzes B, Jureidini J, Grundy Q. (2018) Mental health messages in prominent mental health apps. Annals of Family Medicine, 16(4), 338-342. doi: 10.1370/afm.2260
- Healy D, Le Noury J, Jureidini J. Los antidepresivos en pediatría: ¿el mayor fracaso de la asistencia sanitaria? Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. 2018; 37(132): 5; 329-350.
2017
- Amsterdam JD, McHenry LB, Jureidini JN. Industry-Corrupted Psychiatric Trials. Psychiatr. Pol. 2017; 51(6): DOI: https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/80136
2016
- Walsh J, Cominos N, Jureidini J. How language shapes psychiatric case formulation. Communication & Medicine. 2016, 13: 99–114
- Jureidini J. Perverse Asylums: Failure of Decency Breeds Dangerous Resentment. Socioanalysis 2016;18:53–61.
- Jureidini J. Data transparency in clinical trials: Implications of Restoring Study 329. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2016, 50:1199-1200.
- Le Noury J, Nardo JM, Healy D, Jureidini J, Raven M, Tufanaru C, Abi-Jaoude E. Study 329 continuation phase: Safety and efficacy of paroxetine and imipramine in extended treatment of adolescent major depression International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine, 28:143-161, 2016
- Caldwell D, Walsh J, Vine EW, Jureidini J (eds). The Discourse of Sport: Analyses from Social Linguistics. Routledge, 2016
- Jureidini J, Amsterdam J, McHenry LB (2016). The citalopram CIT-MD-18 pediatric depression trial: Deconstruction of medical ghostwriting, data mischaracterisation and academic malfeasance. International Journal Risk and Safety in Medicine. 28 (2016) 33-24. See also background notes available here: Getting it published.
- Jureidini, J. Antidepressants fail, but no cause for therapeutic gloom. The Lancet. 2016. June.
- Jureidini, J. Think twice before prescribing for ADHD. MJA InSight. 2016. April 4.
2015
- Raven M. Analysis of Mortality in Mental Disorders. JAMA Psychiatry 2015. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2015.1362
- Le Noury J, Nardo, JM, Healy D, Jureidini J, Raven M, Tufanaru C, Abi-Jaoude E. Restoring Study 329: efficacy and harms of paroxetine and imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence. BMJ 2015;351:4320.
- Jureidini J. In reply to Let Children Cry (McGorry PD, Rickwood DJ & Hickie IB, 2015). MJA 202 (8). 4 May 2015.
2014
- Jureidini J. Let children cry. Medical Journal of Australia. 2014. Nov 17;201(10):612-3.
2013
- Jureidini J, Tonkin A, Jureidini E. Combination Pharmacotherapy for Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents. Pediatric Drugs 2013;15:377-391.
- Frances A, Raven M. Two views on the DSM-5: the need for caution in diagnosing and treating mental disorders. Am Fam Physician. 2013 Oct 15;88(8):Online.
2012
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O’Rourke P, McEvoy P (2012). Infants in alternative care. In Newman L. & Mares S. (Eds.) Contemporary approaches to infant and child mental health. Melbourne: IP Communications
- Raven M, Parry P. Psychotropic marketing practices and problems: implications for DSM-5. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2012 Jun;200(6):512-6.
- Raven M, Stuart GW, Jureidini J. 'Prodromal' diagnosis of psychosis: Ethical problems in research and clinical practice. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 Jan;46(1):64-5.
- Rogers W, Zutlevics T, Raven M, Jureidini J (2012). Guidance offers little in the way of ethics or transparency. BMJ. 2012 Apr 24;344:e2910.
- Jureidini J, Raven M (2012). Healthy Kids Check: lack of transparency and misplaced faith in the benefits of screening. Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2012 Oct;46(10):924-7.
- Jureidini J. Explanations and unexplanations: restoring meaning to psychiatry. ANZJ Psychiatry 2012; 46: 188-191.
- Jureidini J. Key opinion leaders in psychiatry: A conflicted pathway to career advancement. ANZJ Psychiatry 2012;46: 495-7
2011
- Jureidini J, Burnside J (2011). Children in Immigration Detention: a case of Reckless Mistreatment. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health 2011; 35:304-306.
- Raven M (2011). Omission of evidence about 5-year outcomes. Br J Psychiatry. 2011 Mar;198(3):239-40.
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O’Rourke, P. (2011). The Significance of Reflective Supervision for Infant Mental Health Work. Infant Mental Health Journal, 32(2), 165-173
2010 and earlier
- Isacsson G, Rich CL, Jureidini J, Raven M. The increased use of antidepressants has contributed to the worldwide reduction in suicide rates. Br J Psychiatry. 2010 Jun;196(6):429-33.
- Jureidini J, McHenry L, Mansfield P. Clinical trials and drug promotion: Selective reporting of study 329. Int J Risk & Safety in Medicine 2008; 20:73-81.
- Jureidini J, Mintzes B, Raven M. Does direct-to-consumer advertising of antidepressants lead to a net social benefit? Pharmacoeconomics. 2008;26(7):557-66.
- Jureidini J and Tonkin A. Overuse of antidepressants for depression. CNS Drugs 2006; 20:623-632.
- Raven M, Rogers W, Jureidini J. Partnerships between academic psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry. Australas Psychiatry. 2005 Mar;13(1):83-4.
- Tonkin A, Jureidini J. (invited editorial) Wishful thinking: Antidepressant drugs in childhood depression. British Journal of Psychiatry 2005; 187:304-305.
- Jureidini JN, Doecke CJ, Mansfield, PR, Haby MM, Menkes DB, Tonkin AL. Efficacy and safety of antidepressants for children and adolescents. British Med J. 2004; 328:879-883.
- Donald T, Jureidini J. Parenting Capacity. Child Abuse Review 2004; 13:5-17.
- Mansfield P, Henry D, Tonkin A. Single enantiomer drugs: Elegant science, disappointing effects. Clin Pharmacokinetics 2004; 43:287-290.
- Smith (O’Rourke), P. (1993) Childhood Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Pregnancy and Birthing: A Life History Study. Inside Outside Books. Palmerston Nth, NZ. 2nd ed. 1995, PCCS Books. Paragon House, Old Trafford, Manchester, UK.
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Presentations
- Flinders University Seminar, Prof Fran Baum Public Universities : What future do they have?, 17th November 2020, presentation by Prof Jon Jureidini
- TedxSydney 'The Fallacy of the Middle Ground' 22 May 2010, presented by Prof Jon Jureidini
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Media
- Dave, Marchese. MAGA v Trump on the Epstein list + antidepressant withdrawal Triple J Hack (ABC Radio National) 16 July 2025, guest: Prof Jon Jureidini
- Jureidini, Jon. Why are so many Australians taking antidepressants? The Conversation. 09 February 2024.
- Jureidini, Jon. RANZCP must step up for those in need. Letters to the editor in The Saturday Paper, February 26-March 4, 2022 No. 388.
- Manger, Sam. #122 The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine with Dr Jon Jureidini. The GP Show 10 January 2021, podcast guest.
- Dunlevy, Sue & Pike, Ben. Mental Health 360: Mental health crisis: How we can help those in need The Advertiser 03 December 2020, panel discussion
- Harper, Hilary. Is evidence-based medicine everything it should be? Life Matters (ABC Radio National) 24 August 2020, guest: Prof Jon Jureidini
- Spinney, Laura. Nature Book Reviews. Drugs, money and misleading evidence 29 June 2020
- Karvelas, Patricia. 'Significant research' shows antidepressants harmful for children ABC Radio National 19 June 2020, guest: Prof Jon Jureidini
- McCauley, Dana. Health Minister orders review after study links antidepressants and youth suicide The Sydney Morning Herald 14 June 2020
- Radio 2GB Sydney 27 April 2019, guest: Prof Jon Jureidini
- Maisel, Eric. 'Jon Jureidini on Critical and Ethical Mental Health' Psychology today, 10 March 2016
- Jackson-Webb, Fron 'Half of teens outgrow depression and anxiety' The Conversation 16 January 2014, interviewee: Prof Jon Jureidini
- Sheean, Liz. Turning sorrow into sickness: An interview with Jon Jureidini. Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol. 18, No. 2, Feb 2012: 40-45
- Adelaide Festival of Ideas 22 October 2011, guest: Prof Jon Jureidini
- The Advertiser , 'Festival of Ideas: All in the mind' 1 October 2011
- Lateline 'Mental health experts disagree on future of care' 18 August 2011
- TedxSydney 'Michael Wesley & Jon Jureidini - Speaker Interviews' 22 May 2010
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Submissions
- Submission 945: Submission in response to Productivity Commission (2019) Mental Health Draft Report; Prof Jon Jureidini & Melissa Raven