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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. However, we do provide information about ECT. The information is that it does cause cognitive deficits long-term in a high percentage of people. What Mad in America can do is keep on promoting and publishing this information.

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Mad in Ireland

Mad in America

Although Jennifer Houghs older sister, Valerie, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was fifteen, Hough never saw her sister as mentally ill. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. In Ireland, we’re very good at paying lip service to these things, she explains.