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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

In 2012, during my master’s programme, my younger brother got sick and could not get appropriate treatment so he died. The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. My parents looked for me and found me but when they wanted to take me to the first hospital I refused.

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

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.