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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. In 1990-92, 12% of the US population aged 18–54 years received treatment for emotional problems, which went up to 20% in 2001–2003. 695 This is sickening.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.

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STAR*D: The Harms of Orchestrated Psychiatric Fraud

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We showed how STAR*D’s authors had manipulated the data to manufacture fraudulent results. Three other published critiques of the STAR*D study document this malfeasant reporting of the findings —all to no avail because psychiatry is in total control of the narrative. He, too, was spurned.