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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. And that’s what we’ve become.

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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. So even their self-judgment is not proof of the merits of the drugs, even for themselves, because they lack knowing what would have been possible for them. However, we do provide information about ECT. We don’t know.