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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

The introduction of the health enterprise model in 2001 gave economists and bureaucrats the mandate to override health professionals’ arguments from a cost/benefit perspective, which effectively transforms health personnel from professional service actors to gatekeepers for resources and rights.

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

Mad in America

14 Many psychologists do not realise that they have a great advantage over psychiatrists, which is that they are educated with the aim of understanding the patients where they are and helping them with psychotherapy and other forms of support. Psychiatrists should be re-educated so that they can function as psychologists.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

Mad in America

My mother passed away in 2001. We need a movement to educate people about the harms. By then they had several million dollars in assets, including 600 acres of property and four homes in Arkansas, plus $600,000 in FedEx stock, a home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., We need justice for victims. It needs to happen.

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How Pretend Play Helps Children Build Skills

Child Mind Intitute

2021; Galyer & Evans, 2001; Gilpin et al., Trends in Neuroscience and Education , 25 , 100165. Early Education and Development , 26 (7), 920-932. Early Childhood Education Journal , 44 , 61-68. Educational Psychology Review , 36 (2), 1-26. 2015; Lindsey & Colwell, 2013). Galyer, K. T., & Evans, I.

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Peaceful Reflections on the Past from ‘One Who Got Away’

Mad in America

‘C hairman Mao’ greeted me gently from the back of a small Chinese ‘bread van’, a simple but practical vehicle found all over China in June 2001. It’s an interesting experiment.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Current Positions : Serving third term on the MPS Council, Co-Chair of MPS Legislative Committee, Corresponding Member of the APA Council for Medical Education and Lifelong Learning. Dr. Young is passionate about patient advocacy, reducing stigma, and medical education. Council (2-year term, four vacancies) Traci Speed, M.D.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

In 2001, a GSK paroxetine Assay in depressed children (Study 329), was published in the best journal in child psychopharmacology, trumpeting paroxetine’s benefits and safety. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Fraud is a real possibility and its less hidden than people might think. It’s the hypnosis.