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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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P sychiatry’s serotonin-imbalance theory of depression, long discarded by researchers, was finally flushed down the toilet by psychiatry and the mainstream media in 2022. Less publicized in 2022 was another powerful discrediting of psychiatry’s neurobiological disease model. 2) What approach to depression makes sense?

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

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This paper is surprising since Torrey has long argued that schizophrenia is a brain disease to be treated biomedically. T he decades-long attempt to locate the gene or genes for schizophrenia has failed, according to a new article in Psychiatric Research by prominent schizophrenia researcher E. Fuller Torrey.