Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). You can’t have it both ways although, with their spurious biopsychosocial model and their eclectic psychiatry, they tried. Is mental disorder a genetic disturbance of brain function, or is it not?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The prescription included a total of eight medications, two of which were injections, for a 16-year-old girl who had presented with a two-day history of vague physical symptoms following a stressful event. As promising as this model was for early developments in science, it is no longer tenable, even in the West.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Hough notes that, while Irelands mental health system has recently started using terms like biopsychosocial model, human rights, and trauma-informed, actual practices remain essentially the same as always. In Ireland, we’re very good at paying lip service to these things, she explains.

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