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

Mad in America

We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave. She didn’t reply.

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

Mad in America

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. Avoid financial conflicts of interest with manufacturers of psychoactive drugs or other treatments, e.g. equipment for electroshock.

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

Mad in America

The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised.

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A General Semantics Perspective on Language and Reality: Implications for Therapy

National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

The major theories of the new science were presented by Korzybski in his books Manhood of Humanity (1921/2016) and Science and Sanity (1933/1994). The perpetuation of such projections, concludes Korzybsky, tends to keep mankind on the archaic levels of anthropomorphism and animism in their evaluation of their surroundings and themselves.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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Dubey, 2018; Egan, 2018; Ejaredar & Hagen, 2014; Farnsworth, 2016; Grant, 2006; Greer, 2016; Halle & Nelson, 2019; Harris, 2023; Larkin, 2022; Life After ECT Inc., 2025; MindFreedom International, 2016; Murphy, 2021; Ogles, 2023; Oppenheim, 2022; Oprison, 2021; Read, 2022; Read et al., 2016, March 11). Gardner, H.,