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“Functional Disorders”: One of Medicine’s Biggest Failures | Marion Brown

Mad in America

’ O’Sullivan suggests that for recovery, community support is needed, including ‘…a community that can tolerate imperfection and failure, and which has the humility to put aside its vested interests.’ Worse still, the patients may find themselves in battles with the medical establishment.’

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Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead

Mad in America

Instead, resources should be focused on voluntary mental health care, services and community support that people desperately need and often cannot access.” ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Involuntary Care Doesn’t Work. What BC Should Do Instead appeared first on Mad In America.

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World Bipolar Day 2025: Breaking the Stigma

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

Participate in Local or Online Events Join virtual conferences, awareness walks, or community discussions hosted by mental health organizations during Bipolar Awareness Month. These events help foster community, support, and education. Schedule a consultation today.

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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Examples: from psychiatry, articles led by Juahar , Jha , Nutt ; and many psychiatrists’ responses to Moncrieff et al’s review on serotonin ( sample ). And on the other, psychologists and Mad in America authors and readers, declaring a near emergency. Every new essay prompts yet more objections from the other camp.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. For Illich, the iatrogenesis of modern medicine is clinical when harm to individuals results specifically from medical treatment.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

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 by the way, that article said how few doctors and residents were choosing to go into psychiatry. And why did they do that?