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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. But do patients report the same?

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

In our article , we try to characterise some of these familiar strategies. World Psychiatric Association/World Medical Association ) The binary structures deployed in these open letters are strategic. Psychiatry united under one banner versus individual deviants (the anti-psychiatrist). Some of the tactics are well-rehearsed.

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

Mad in America

.” According to their website, “ Viewpoint articles are longer pieces (3000 words) that allow for personal perspectives and opinions on issues relevant to psychiatry practice and research. Authorship: At invitation of Editor (who can be contacted with an article proposal).”

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ” 1 This is one of many recent, oversimplified headlines that encourage us to think we are on the brink of discovering the next biomarker that will scientifically validate biomedical psychiatric disorders.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. Then, in the 1970s, The New York Times published an article called “Psychiatry’s Anxious Years, “and part of it was that medical students looked down on those who chose psychiatry as their speciality. And why did they do that?

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article, written by psychiatrist Yousaf Raza, was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in South Asia. “S However, as I endeavor to demonstrate in this article, this episode is but an exaggerated display of issues deeply ingrained in the mental health profession itself.