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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

Mad in America

standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). ” 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.

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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. One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. We are talking about hospitalized depression.

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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.