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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

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’ O’Sullivan suggests that for recovery, community support is needed, including ‘…a community that can tolerate imperfection and failure, and which has the humility to put aside its vested interests.’ Worse still, the patients may find themselves in battles with the medical establishment.’

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

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At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. However, I have not been able to go for my PhD since then due to financial constraints.

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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. Similar results were found in an RCT done by Lex Wunderink, reported in 2013 in JAMA Psychiatry.