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

Mad in America

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

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

Centre for Mental Health

million referrals to NHS Talking Therapies more than double the figure in 2012/13 In 2021/22, a total cost of 596.8 Early economic analysis by NICE suggests that these technologies could be cost-effective based on current prices and evidence. This is highly likely to be excellent value for public money. million appointments.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures.

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“A Dangerous Substance”: The Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health

Mad in America

She wrote her own book on the topic, Virtual Child: The Terrifying Truth about what Technology is Doing to Children , and offers webinars designed to promote healthier habits for adults and kids both. All of this is familiar to Cris Rowan, a pediatric occupational therapist based in British Columbia. Including her.