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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

Mad in America

The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ). of government health spending, the majority of which is spent on institutions and on physical care: “…the biomedical model, which focuses predominantly on diagnosis, medication and symptom reduction, prevails across existing mental health systems.

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Mad in Ireland

Mad in America

I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. Yet the trauma underlying Valeries struggles was generally treated as irrelevant to her psychological state, something that only became worse once Valerie received a diagnosis. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. Theres no room for your story.