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

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Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Although drug injuries are virtually absent from public discourse, available research considers them a leading health risk.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. The STAR*D study, published in 2006, is the largest and most expensive study ever done to determine the effectiveness of drug treatments for depression. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Proteins keep us alive.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

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Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

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Mentalization is an imaginative activity about others or one self, intentional mental states of needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals, purposes and reasons (Channon, Crawford, Orlowska, Parikh, & Thoma, 2014; Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). These three constructs are what comprise so-called social competence. Theory of mind, 2.)

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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Either you must admit that you’re on honest person, weather pending, or you have to be flexible with social constructs like “sick” or “honest.” Souery, Daniel, Papakostas, George, Trivedi, Madhukar, Treatment-Resistant Depression (2006). I’ll mention two. Strategies and Tactics in the Treatment of Chronic Depression.

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

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Psychiatry’s mental illness theories are a major component of what Antonio Gramsci described as cultural hegemony —the prevailing cultural beliefs of a society that are social constructs implemented by the ruling class through favored institutions so as to maintain domination.