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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing , The idea of mental illness as a chemical imbalance has now given way to mental illnesses as connectional or brain circuit disorders.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. This process of medicalisation is now all too often a default response to distress and happens on a large scale.