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How to Explain Top Psychiatrists’ “Dr. Strangelove Exuberance” Unchecked by Reality

Mad in America

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures. “I

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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.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. Forest’s internal documents showed that company staff were aware of the problems.

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Letting Go of Lithium

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I saved up to travel, and in 2015, I explored Colombia and Nicaragua, teaching yoga, exploring and meeting inspiring individuals. I had had enough of the gypsy life, and I found a somatic coach to help me process, heal and learn self-regulating skills. I had more awareness. No more attempts at getting off. In some ways it did.

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The Psychological Humanities Manifesto: An Interview with Mark Freeman

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Along with David Goodman, he has also co-edited Psychology and the Other (Oxford, 2015) and, with Hanna Meretoja, has co-edited the recently published The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics (Oxford, 2023). Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill | Sense). It’s challenging work to do. So that’s a start.

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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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Living on the Edge – Snapshots of Life with PTSD: The Wondrous Yellow Roses (Loss of Self)

The Art of Healing Trauma

This short story about a train trip shows how the many symptoms of PTSD combine to have a devastating impact to one’s Sense of Self. Losing a large percent of memory of one’s past is the equivalent of losing a large percent of one’s Sense of Self, identity, personality, etc. But it never happened. So I had no help.