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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. and devoted much time to the problem of mental illness.” Thomas Insel, quoted in 2017. “To Thomas Insel, in Insel’s 2022 book Healing , xxvi.

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

Mad in America

The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.

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International Women’s Day: Interviews with Drs Joanne Fegan, Maeve Doyle and Atiqa Rafiq

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Dr Joanne Fegan Dr Joanne Fegan is the Director of Communications and Public Education with the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland since March 2024. She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist?

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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. New Mexico acupuncture law opened right after in 2002. Their non-cooperation paid the pins forward.