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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological. The author, Erik Rudi.

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

Mad in America

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Even fewer spot the role assays play.

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Trust Among Those People in Prison, Rising From the Borderlands

Mad in America

With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals like smudging and cultural education are integrated alongside therapies like acupuncture, itself a technology that was invented by indigenous peoples of the Americas thousands of years ago.