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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. From the Spanish flu in 1918 to Covid-19 in 2019, life expectancy has doubled. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care.