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

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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. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.

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

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In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) published a study comparing depression remission outcomes of a placebo to the herb St.