Dr. Peter C Gøtzsche, leader of the Nordic Cochrane Center, says antidepressant drugs have created the chronic depression epidemic. “The drugs cause permanent brain damage”.

Here’s the article he wrote which he references in the interview:

http://davidhealy.org/psychiatry-gone-astray/

Apparently, it caused quite a stir with plenty of outrage from the usual corners.

On 6 January 2014, I published the article “Psychiatry Gone Astray” in a major Danish newspaper (Politiken), which started an important debate about the use and abuse of psychiatric drugs. Numerous articles followed, some written by psychiatrists who agreed with my views. For more than a month, there wasn’t a single day without discussion of these issues on radio, TV or in newspapers, and there were also debates at departments of psychiatry. People in Norway and Sweden have thanked me for having started the discussion, saying that it’s impossible to have such public debates about psychiatry in their country, and I have received hundreds of emails from patients that have confirmed with their own stories that what I wrote in my article is true.

http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/02/unwarranted-criticism-psychiatry-gone-astray/