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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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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

Mad in America

His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. I’m delighted to get to chat with you about your work and your latest book. Moore: I’d like to go on to talk about your 2022 book entitled, Madness: A Philosophical Exploration. James Moore: Justin, welcome.

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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

On the one hand, the biopsychosocial model is the most proliferated, which in theory acknowledges psychological and societal factors alongside biological ones, but slapping these three domains together within one model does little to elucidate the interplay between them.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at Boston University, in his 2017 book Dostoevsky and The Riddle of the Self , described his writing as: “a vast experimental canvas on which the problem of selfhood is continuously explored over the course of four decades.”

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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. If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family.