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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

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The Radical CRPD The most radical element in the WHO’s 2021 document was its embrace of the 2008 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a governing principle for radical reform. Denial of legal capacity, coercive practices and institutionalization must end.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

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

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Perhaps another model could fit the data better; however, unlike psychiatry’s chemical-neurobiological medical model, at least this model has some empirical evidence and rationality. 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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In 2008, BMJ recognized her as one of 100 international scientists journalists could count on for unbiased reviews of health research. LeFever Watson: Its legal drug dealing. They got caught pressuring their clinicians to diagnose ADHD and ensure 100% of their patients with uncomplicated ADHD were prescribed a stimulant.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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2025; Murphy, 2021; Neugebauer, 2024; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Roche, 2016; Rogers, 2021; Simonson, 2020; Singh, 2016; Smith, 2008; Stence & Stence, 2022; Tenney, 2016). We Must Not Remove Legal Protections for People at Risk of Forced ECT. Hundreds forced to have ECT without legal representation. 2008, March 20).

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

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One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”