Communicating research effectively to the general population requires simplifying complex ideas without oversimplifying the meaning. In psychiatry, probably the most complex field in medicine, this is a challenge. Another aspect that might make communicating research in psychiatry problematic is that everyone has their own opinion on diagnosis and treatment and that the psychiatrist themselves are not always agreeing on how to understand and apply research findings. Below I w

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