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

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of the patients, and the authors said that their study “provides new evidence to suggest little to no relation between use of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and self-reported suicidal ideation.” Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. This is mendacious.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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To imagine these people as having traversed these landscapes losing all their belongings and sense of self. The residents seem somewhat aware of this; however, it is the medicalization of their illness experience that they resist. To whom do we attribute the ability to care?

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.