Remove 2002 Remove Bipolar disorder Remove Pharmaceuticals
article thumbnail

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

Mad in America

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In 2002, applying to the FDA to license Paxil as an antidepressant for children, GSK submitted 3 assays, one being Study 329, stating all 3 were negative. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence.

article thumbnail

Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing , The idea of mental illness as a chemical imbalance has now given way to mental illnesses as connectional or brain circuit disorders.

52
article thumbnail

Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.