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Gender and Psychiatry: Pathologized Emotions

Mad in America

Years later, in 2005, in the last annotated edition of Women and Madness , the author insisted on the persistence of this bias, which even today, 50 years later, seems to remain unchanged. In his words: “Hospitals are part of life in this world. That anguished search ended, tragically, with her first psychiatric hospitalization.

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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. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.