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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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We both thought the vulnerability was accentuated when I didn’t take my meds—the longest period of negligence was 10 days when my mother died in 2014 (nothing happened)—but we didn’t know anything about the withdrawal syndrome then. I know what it is to harm myself, to want to die. David Foster Wallace is gone, but I am here.

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

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst. 10:63 This is b t.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. He was also a major user for an extended period.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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LANGA TOWNSHIP, SOUTH AFRICA – JANUARY 28, 2014 – Schoolchildren poses for a photograph along a roadway in Langa, South Africa, a township located on the outskirts of Cape Town. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

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How We Started the Bay Area Hearing Voices Network

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The Bay Area Hearing Voices Network started in 2014 as a small group of family members, clinicians, and those with lived experiences. We were also challenging the prevailing mental illness narrative espoused by NAMI, most psychiatrists, and the pharmaceutical industry. We started meeting in a clinic where one of our members worked.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.