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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr.,
Mad in America
OCTOBER 21, 2023
However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. For societal and family authorities, psychiatry has another political role, an “extra-legal police function.”
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