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

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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. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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There is, after all, plenty of stigma against those experiencing mental ill-health in both richer and poorer societies. Schizophrenia’ Disability-adjusted life years, 2012 ( Source ) Here I take psychotropic medicine use in general as a proxy for use of ‘antipsychotic’ drugs. This is most likely under-reporting.