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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I attended the University of Colorado and studied Aerospace Engineering, and most importantly at the time, I ski raced. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) published a study comparing depression remission outcomes of a placebo to the herb St. Later in 2002, a leading researcher of the placebo effect, Irving Kirsch, examined 47 drug company studies on various antidepressants. John’s wort and to Zoloft.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

For example, group recall suffers because members can pass on information they did not study earlier, producing memory contagion (Maswood & Rajaram, 2019; Meade & Roediger, 2002). National memories: Constructing identity in populist times (pp. National memories: Constructing identity in populist times. Rajaram, S.

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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. When I look at the numbers—the number of sui­cides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data—it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better.”