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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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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. And that’s what we’ve become.

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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All persons should be able to exercise their right to give free and informed consent to accept or reject treatment in mental health systems. You can’t have it both ways although, with their spurious biopsychosocial model and their eclectic psychiatry, they tried. ” Box 2, p. ” Box 3, p.

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

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You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I got interested in the concept of information in neuroscience. So what was it that led to your interest in these subjects?

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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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

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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.