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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. Do we advise people to go off drugs?

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

Mad in America

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

Mad in America

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. However, we do provide information about ECT.