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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

Psychiatric News reported in 2024 that PubMed shows more than 400 trials of ketamine as a depression treatment in the past decade; however, it also reports that G. The APA publishes the DSM diagnostic manual, and PLOS Medicine reported in 2012, 69% of the DSM- 5 task force members report having ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

Mad in America

They have a number of treatments in their medical bag, but this is the state of the mental health care system in Vancouver, which started buckling four years ago under the pressure of the pandemic. By mid-2020 it was two years. The eighties and nineties were a depression-treatment renaissance. The demand is just too high.