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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. More aware of a need for humility.

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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. ” This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. The survival of psychiatrized people may just depend on it.

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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?