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

Mad in America

Here is the cover from that issue: In his essay, Miller repeatedly stressed that ever since 2006, the STAR*D study had stood “out as a beacon guiding treatment decisions.” Five months after Prozac came to market, the NIMH launched a “Depression Awareness, Recognition and Treatment” campaign.

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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 As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature. fold increase in the reports of fatal ADEs”.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. Raising awareness about depression, screening for it, and teaching that its common but underdiagnosed, at first glance seem like good things. So its particularly easy to get them to adopt an inferior self-image.

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Dr. Gordon Warme: The Curious Case of an Unconventional Psychiatrist

Mad in America

I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. His early books are dense, information-rich field manuals, but his writing from 2006 is what really captured my attention. A few years after the release of that film, I began adapting his writings for a cerebral, artful documentary.

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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.