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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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The recipient of many honors, she received the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award from the American Psychological Foundation for “exceptional contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses and for mentoring a new generation of researchers.” ” This interview was conducted by email.

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

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As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Of the 4,041 patients who entered the trial, only 108 had remitted and then stayed well and in the study to its one-year end, a documented stay-well rate of 3%.

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Deadly Prescriptions: New Study Links Antipsychotics to Life-Threatening Risks in Dementia Patients

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The average age of the included service users was 82.1 Service users prescribed antipsychotics were more likely to have a history of serious mental illness, as well as prescriptions for antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Electronic health data collected for administrative purposes can occasionally be unreliable.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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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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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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The ART medicines are obtained each month from the Government ART clinic in Bhuj for all residents who are HIV positive, and for those with mental health conditions, the psychiatrist at the Government Mental Hospital in Bhuj prescribes the medications. However, she passed away from childbirth complications at the age of 26.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. So what is there to lose?