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

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In a recent article , however, I examined the research-base, finding that outcome monitoring is less helpful than is generally thought, and how its growing predominance can be attributed to sociopolitical influences in our healthcare systems.

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

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What’s more, the notion of fighting a health condition implies that success depends on individual effort and resources, which can marginalise those with limited access to healthcare resources, including the uninsured or underinsured. Describing drugs as a ‘weapons’ or ‘magic bullets’ encourages more aggressive treatment strategies.

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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. In evidence-based healthcare, we do not use interventions that do more harm than good, which psychiatry does. They are not medical diseases.

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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

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They can exist either within or outside of traditional healthcare systems. But within the context of mental health and the mental healthcare system, it’s unusual, isn’t it? You know, we’ve been doing this research since 2016. Single-session interventions are designed to make the most of every moment.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? Psykiatrisk Tidsskrift 2016;Nov 20. [31] London: John Blake; 2016. [48] In my book about organised crime in the drug industry, one of the chapters is, Pushing children into suicide with happy pills. [51] Region Hovedstadens Psykiatri 2023. [29] 29] Gøtzsche PC. 47] Newman KB.

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: A 2016 New York Times article, “ An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death ,” tells of modern cancer researches realizing that Otto Warburg was correct that cancer is primarily a metabolic condition. This is the story of one such barber.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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A 2022 large study , lead-authored by Marc Stone at the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, examined 232 drug-company trials on antidepressants submitted to the FDA between 1979 and 2016. In evaluating any drug treatment, scientists also examine whether its benefits outweigh its adverse effects.