Education
B.A. (Psychology), McGill University
MSW, Carleton University
Ph.D. (Social Welfare), University of California, Berkeley.
Background
A native of Fez, Morocco, David Cohen lived in France and Canada, where he taught at University of Montreal, before moving to the U.S.
His work contributes to understanding how consumers, professionals, communities and societies use prescribed psychotropic drugs, and to developing interventions in mental health that rest on critical thinking and informed consent.
He has contributed to clinical practice by elaborating self-help and professional help methods for clients undergoing withdrawal from psychiatric drugs.
He is author or co-author on more than 110 publications appearing in journals and books in social work, psychology, sociology, medicine, psychiatry, law, ethics, and nursing. In 2003, he received the Elliot Freidson Award for outstanding publication in medical sociology from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Cohen has given hundreds of conferences in academic, professional, and other settings to present his analyses and perspectives, consulted with foreign governments on regulation of psychotropic drugs to children.
Dr. Cohen has edited or co-authored eight books or monographs, including Challenging the Therapeutic State (1990), Tardive Dyskinesia and Cognitive Dysfunction (1993), Critical New Perspectives on ADHD (2006), and Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications (revised edition, 2007).
His French-language books include Medicalization and Social Control (1994), and Critical Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs (1995).
Dr. Cohen serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Mind and Behavior, Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling, and Psychotherapy, and Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry. He is a past President of the Center for the Study of Psychology and Psychiatry, and serves as secretary and board member of the Alliance for Human Research Protection (www.ahrp.org), a charitable, non-profit organization advocating for transparence and accountability in medical research. His views have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and NPR.
Courses
DOCTORAL
History & Systems of Social Work Research
GRADUATE
Human Behavior and the Social Environment II (Psychopathology)
Psychopharmacology and Social Work Practice
Research Methods in Social Work
UNDERGRADUATE
Human Behavior in the Social Environment
Social Work Research
Research
His research experience spans large-scale surveys to in-depth qualitative inquiries, with more than 20 externally-funded projects as principal or co-principal investigator.
He is currently P.I. on a publicly-funded project to create and disseminate an evidence-based critical curriculum on psychotropic medications for non-medically trained mental health professionals. (Inge Sengelmann, MSW, Project Coordinator.)
Recent articles and chapters include:
Cohen D, Jacobs D. (2007). Randomized controlled trials of antidepressants: Clinically and scientifically irrelevant? Debates in Neuroscience. 1, 44-54.
Moncrieff J, Cohen D. (2006). Do antidepressants cure or cause abnormal brain states? PLoS Medicine. 3(4), e240.
Moncrieff J, Cohen D. (2005). Rethinking models of psychotropic drug action. Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics. 74, 145-153.
Voyer P, Cohen D, Lauzon S, Collin J. (2004). Factors associated with psychotropic drug use among community-dwelling older persons: A review of empirical reports. BMC Nursing 3, 3 [online journal].
Cohen, D. (2003). The psychiatric medication history: Context, meaning, and purpose. Social Work in Mental Health, 1(4), 5-28.
Cohen, D. (2002). Research on the drug treatment of schizophrenia: A critical appraisal and implications for social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 38, 1-24.
Cohen, D., McCubbin, M., Collin, J., & Perodeau, G. (2001). Medications as social phenomena. Health, 5(4), 441-469.
Cohen, D. (2000). Critical psychiatry. In A. E. Kazdin (Ed.-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Oxford University Press & American Psychological Association.
Cohen, D., & Jacobs, D. (2000). A model consent form for psychiatric drug treatment. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 20(1), 59-64.
Jacobs, D., & Cohen, D. (1999). What is really known about psychological alterations produced by psychiatric drugs? International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, 12(1), 37-47.
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