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Papers by Lisa Cosgrove

Chapter 8 Feminist Research Methods: Studying Women and Gender Maureen C. McHugh and Lisa Cosgrov... more Chapter 8 Feminist Research Methods: Studying Women and Gender Maureen C. McHugh and Lisa Cosgrove Feminist psychology names a strategic space between feminism and psy-chology. It is not a stable topic area, but rather identifies a site of con-test (over what ...

The Lancet Psychiatry, Mar 1, 2023

American Journal of Community Psychology, Dec 1, 2000

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Jun 1, 2018

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, May 28, 2018

The Lancet Psychiatry, Dec 1, 2022

BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018

The validity of clinical trial results is influenced by researchers’ decisions regarding the mana... more The validity of clinical trial results is influenced by researchers’ decisions regarding the management of missing data. Inadequate management of missing data has been identified as a significant source of bias that can result in an overestimation of drug efficacy. Transparency related to the management of missing data is essential to assess the strength of evidence reported in publications. In a subset of 17 randomised clinical trials for two new antidepressant medications, we present a case study in which we examined investigators’ decisions regarding how to handle missing data and if their chosen method took into account, possible violations of analytic requirements that could affect results. The majority of trials (76%) concluded that there was a benefit of antidepressant treatment and in 94% the methodology for handling missing data was identifiable. Of these, 50% imputed data using the last observation carried forward and half used a mixed-effects model repeated measure approa...

The Humanistic Psychologist, 2019

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2016

Feminists have contributed to a critical analysis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Men... more Feminists have contributed to a critical analysis of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) since it was first published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1952. These analyses have focused on the philosophical and political dimensions of the manual's underlying theory and approach as well as the ways in which many disorders reinforce gender, class, and race bias. Major areas of criticism include the lack of attention to the sociopolitical context of emotional distress, DSM-5's ethnocentric framework, and the widening of diagnostic boundaries. Keywords: critical theory; diagnosis; feminisms; psychiatry; psychology

Women's reproductive health, Jan 2, 2018

In this paper we respond to Lobel and Ibrahim's (2018), Miles-Cohen's (2018), Standeven, ... more In this paper we respond to Lobel and Ibrahim's (2018), Miles-Cohen's (2018), Standeven, Osborne, and Payne's (2018), and Mauthner's (2018) commentaries on our article (Vaswani, Karter, Cosgrove, P...

Accountability in Research

Frontiers in Psychiatry

The pharmaceutical industry’s influence on psychiatric research and practice has been profound an... more The pharmaceutical industry’s influence on psychiatric research and practice has been profound and has resulted in exaggerated claims of the effectiveness of psychotropic medications and an under-reporting of harms. After the regulatory approval of fluoxetine, the pharmaceutical industry began promoting (and continues to promote) a chemical imbalance theory of emotional distress. In the last decade, there has been an increased awareness about the limits of this theory and the risks of psychotropic medications. Nonetheless, the medicalization of distress, the sedimented belief in “magic bullets,” and the push to “scale up” mental health treatment have contributed to the meteoric rise in the prescription of psychiatric drugs and of polypharmacy. A major premise of this paper is that the conceptual framework of medical nihilism can help researchers and clinicians understand and address the harms incurred by inflated claims of the efficacy of psychotropic medications. We propose that ps...

Psychiatry Under the Influence, 2015

The framework of institutional corruption provides a method for an investigation of an institutio... more The framework of institutional corruption provides a method for an investigation of an institution to proceed step by step. First, identify the institution’s public mission, that is, its obligation to serve the public good. Next, identify the “economies of influence” that are present and may corrupt the institution. Then document the institution’s “corrupt” behaviors. At that point, seek to understand the harm done to society by the corruption. This step, which can be quite difficult, provides a moment to pause and reflect, for the harm done may go beyond what is immediately visible, and instead reach deep into our collective lives.

All medical subspecialties have been subject to increased scrutiny about the ways by which their ... more All medical subspecialties have been subject to increased scrutiny about the ways by which their financial associations with industry, such as pharmaceutical

Community Mental Health Journal, 2020

The Lancet Psychiatry, 2021