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

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The many erroneous and misleading statements I found cannot be explained by the advent of new, important knowledge, as the publication dates for the textbooks were recent, from 2016 to 2021. If we lose the leading psychologists, there is little hope for the patients who would then need to consult therapists with lesser educations.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

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A comprehensive review published in 2016 —the title of which is a warning—found a wide variety of adverse side effects associated with paroxetine use, among them an increased risk for breast cancer and an association with birth defects in babies born to mothers on the drug. It did not look good. That looked worse.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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Lester Moore never again saw his beloved state of Arkansas, not even to attend the funeral of his younger brother Bill in 2016. The Arkansas property was disposed of by the conservator in 2016. We need a movement to educate people about the harms. ” It never happened. We need justice for victims. It needs to happen.

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Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT

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In a passionate 2016 letter opposing FDA’s decision to down-classify ECT machines, she wrote: “Now FDA intends to put the ECT device into the same category as an X-ray machine. I first met Linda in January 2016, in an MPC closed ward. At Linda’s request, Dan Fisher interviewed Linda in September 2016.

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Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy

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A 2016 Cochrane review concluded that there was insufficient evidence that regularly administering surveys contributed to patient improvements in primary care, and an updated review in 2020 concluded similarly that the scores from these surveys needed to be ‘interpreted with caution’.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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By 2016, I had seriously started to doubt that suffering awful side effects from taking off-licence high doses of two antidepressants was worth my while. In the last few years, I have met two educators in different parts of the country. When I tentatively started to return to work as a doctor—very part time at first—I was fine.

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SAFE: Survivors And Families Empowered—An Update

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The groups are designed to provide education and support—not therapy. In 2016, I was approached by a reporter, Nicolae Tanase, about writing a one-page essay on the meaning of life. This October, our steering committee will be gathering in person in Santa Fe to teach co-facilitators how to develop and conduct multifamily groups.