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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

Mad in America

While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. Many were not aware of these risks prior to starting them. Millions of others share this experience.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

Mad in America

They believed in the Declaration of Independence, which held “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” — otherwise known as the American dream. That was just the beginning.

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Winding Back the Clock: What If the STAR*D Investigators Had Told the Truth?

Mad in America

However, the creation of a “Prozac Nation” might not have been successful without the help of the NIMH, which launched an “educational campaign” at that time designed to change the public’s understanding of depression. The results , which Rush reported in 2004 , were dispiriting.

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A General Semantics Perspective on Language and Reality: Implications for Therapy

National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

Identity, absolute sameness in all respects, is assumed as an empirical principle while partial identity is seen as self-contradictory. Clinical psychologist Isabel Caro (2004), who received the J. He has a Masters in English Literature and was an assistant principal in English on the NYC Board of Education.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses.