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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. 699 We must put an end to this insanity in a profession that is supposed to take care of the insane.

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

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In 2000, JAMA reported the US yearly estimated iatrogenic deaths: 12,000 caused by unnecessary surgeries; 27,000 caused by medication errors and other errors in hospitals; 80,000 hospital/healthcare facility acquired infections; and 106,000 “non-error” adverse effects of medication.

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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. China, obviously, has its own large manufacturing capacity.