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Introduction Statement for the BIC Project

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

This study is not only about intervention, but also about understanding barriers to effective implementation and ensuring that our approaches are culturally adopted and feasible within different healthcare infrastructures. 2008 Sep;86(9):703-9. Bulletin of the World Health Organization.

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

Mad in America

In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects. In antidepressant studies, depression remission is routinely reported for 25% to 35% of the subjects. It has long been known that the variable of therapy technique has little effect on outcome.

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Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

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She has served as a professor in multiple disciplines at universities and medical schools in the United States and abroad and as the patient safety director for a large healthcare system. In 2008, BMJ recognized her as one of 100 international scientists journalists could count on for unbiased reviews of health research.

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

Mad in America

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. is the only developed nation with for-profit healthcare. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

Treatment recommendations for healthcare providers. Epub 2008 Nov 11. . “Comparing the efficacy of stimulants for ADHD in children and adolescents using meta-analysis.” ” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 19(4), 353-364. 34 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2022, March 8). link] 35 Grossi, G.

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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Paradoxical’, because in contrast with healthcare outcomes generally being better in ‘developed’ (high income) countries, outcomes for those who had suffered psychosis were apparently better in the ‘developing’, lower and middle income countries.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

2025; Murphy, 2021; Neugebauer, 2024; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Roche, 2016; Rogers, 2021; Simonson, 2020; Singh, 2016; Smith, 2008; Stence & Stence, 2022; Tenney, 2016). Then many people want to get away from psychiatry and traditional mental healthcare. 2008, March 20). 2018; Life After ECT Inc., link] Singh, A.