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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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

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His early books are dense, information-rich field manuals, but his writing from 2006 is what really captured my attention. At 16 she was forcefully hospitalized and became tethered to psychiatry for the rest of her life. These works read like novels with deeply personal insights, reflections that bridge decades of memories together.

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

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However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures.