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Letter from the Newsletter Editor, October 2017

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

13, 2017 Chair Overall Submission Due Oct. 19, 2017 Speaker Individual Abstracts Due Oct. 20, 2017 Chair to Finalize & Fully Submit the Proposal Dec. 14, 2017 Oral and Poster Abstracts Due Feb. Several deadlines are coming soon: Oct.13, 12, 2018 Late Breaking Oral and Poster Abstracts Open Mar.

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Recovery from Psychosis in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder Is Possible

Mad in America

Around the same time, I became convinced that, in order to prepare me for a higher position, the senior directors of the parent organisation had hired two international consultants: (1) a life coach and (2) an ex-CIA operative (to undertake a surveillance programme using the latest technology to investigate me).

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Mental Health App That Cost Australian Taxpayers $33m Did Not Result in ‘Clinical Outcomes’

Mad in America

Guardian Australia previously revealed that the former government led by Malcolm Turnbull in 2017 awarded the grant to the for-profit company Innowell to develop a mental health app. Known as ‘Project Synergy,’ it was scrapped after health workers at pilot sites found it to be an administrative burden.

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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

Mad in America

Through a freedom of information request, Mad in America confirmed this rate from a 2017-18 national survey of crisis call centers. Vibrant and SAMHSA have long publicly said less than 2% of 988 calls lead to such police/EMS interventions and hospital detentions—but haven’t released actual data.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

In the mid-twentieth century, in addition to Illich, there were other prominent thinkers such as Erich Fromm and Lewis Mumford concerned that an increasingly technological, institutionalized, machine-like society was resulting in loss of our humanity. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”

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Investing in our mental health: Priorities for the NHS ten-year plan

Centre for Mental Health

Early economic analysis by NICE suggests that these technologies could be cost-effective based on current prices and evidence. However, more evidence is needed to determine the actual clinical and cost-effectiveness of such technologies.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

Further, to loosely quote Linda Smith at a Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress 2017, Even if we remove these systems with the ideal to create new ones, the same minds will perpetuate and replicate the system we were moving away from. We can find the best local experts in permaculture, environment restoration, and food production.