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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. Talk about mental health instead.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

Mad in America

Fear of other men runs deep here in our circle, here in the mad age of othering, here in a windowless building that looks like, from a distance, nothing more than a warehouse for storing things that no one else wants to deal with. Acudetox arrived here to the Mescalero reservation in 2001.