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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. In this blog, he introduces the book. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. as in a Ph.D.

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. Primary care doctors do not know of the evidence I review in my book which shows that the “science” psychiatrists cite for their medical practices has been created out of whole cloth.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 8)

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. In this blog, he addresses benzodiazepines and whether substance abuse disorders should be considered brain diseases. SSRI treatment of the anxiety disorders.

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Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

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He told me I had an anxiety disorder on top of being depressed, and that there was a medication called Klonopin that would help my anxiety and another one called Celexa for my depression. Or insurance. In Illinois, I saw a guy I found in the phone book. RG: Did you? I didn’t have a regular doctor.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The Situational Approach papers resonated with a number of insurance industry personnel and academics, and I was encouraged to investigate this topic further.