Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. And so I spent a lot of my teenage years visiting him in various mental hospitals and getting a very clear glimpse of the toll of this cycle of hospitalization, labelling and drugging. I was also put on Prozac.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

standard mental hospital procedures unavoidably violate human rights). 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 20, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. We are talking about hospitalized depression.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

If you are the only doctor on duty in a public hospital with over a hundred patients to be seen in less than 3 hours, the time constraint is understandable. Public/Private Collusion Public hospitals are, in many ways, comparable to garbage dumps, while private practices could easily be mistaken for five-star hotels.

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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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