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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 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. 695 This is sickening. 10:63 This is b t.

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

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?