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National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (2014)

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Department of Justice funded a series of three comprehensive national surveys called the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) in 2008, 2012, and 2014. The survey has not been repeated since 2014, so it is the most recent national data of its kind.

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Pigs in the Hospital: The Collapse of Venezuela’s Mental Health System

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In it, the downfall that was apparent in 2014 had taken a huge toll, as the previously mentioned El Peñón Hospital reported having had 14 patients die because of lack of resources. Access to decent medical attention is in crisis in general but, as tends to be the case, attention to the psychological sufferings is even worse off.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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In 2014, after years of struggling in the press, the courts, and the scientific community, a group of researchers finally gained access to at least some of the study data with GSK fighting against the light of day at every turn. However, in 2004, the New York attorney general filed a consumer fraud action and collected $2.5

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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The WHO’s call in 2014 for paradigm change has been answered by some important allies, one even outside of the mental health community. A well-substantiated body of scientific research argues for rejecting psychiatry’s biological/medical paradigm for mental health and mental disorder and replacing it with a social/psychological paradigm.

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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

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In 2014, the United Nations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras, who is a psychiatrist, called upon all nations to make forced treatment illegal , but not a single country has done anything. I have described on Mad in America that Tuva Andersson , whose problem was anxiety, was also killed by psychiatry. Why do we accept this?

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

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When I published my 10 myths about psychiatry, which are harmful for people, in a major newspaper in January 2014, I ended my article this way: 189 Psychotropic drugs can be useful sometimes for some patients, particularly in short-term use, in acute situations. 10:63 This is b t. 701 They therefore hand out depression pills liberally.

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How Psychiatrists Responded to the Launch of Our New ECT Survey

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International survey of electroconvulsive therapy. Psychology Today , Jan. link] READ, J., Adverse emotional and interpersonal effects reported by 1,829 New Zealanders while taking antidepressants. Psychiatry Research 216, 67-73. Beliefs of people taking antidepressants about causes of depression and reasons for increased prescribing rates.