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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

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She is the author of the forthcoming book, The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging. Before I researched you, I read your book and thought you were twenty years older. What was that like for you as a child, and how has it influenced your book? So, let’s start there.

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Start Maximizing Your Insurance for Therapy in the New Year

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Therapy can be life-changing, but many people leave valuable health insurance benefits on the table simply because they dont know how to maximize them. In this guide, well walk you through strategies to make the most of your insurance plans, and how to start using your benefits for therapy early in the year.

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On the Brink of Murder Because of an Antidepressant

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The pill nearly killed her and took her away from her kids, which Katinka has described in her book, “ The pill that steals lives.” Then, her private insurance ran out, and she was admitted to a public hospital where they stopped all the drugs cold turkey. This was also serious medical malpractice.

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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Thomas Insel points to this issue in his book Healing : Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health , remarking that the problem with the mental health care system in the US is that there isn’t actually a system in the first place. To look at the records it produces, you would believe the result was comprehensive, thorough treatment.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

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Instead, the authors quoted a book written by one of them and by Robert D Goldney who has published a review that is a classic example of how one should not do a review. [17] She called my book about organised crime in the drug industry, [35] which has two chapters about psychiatry, “The first dark book.” 19] Sagan C.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. In this blog, he introduces the book. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. as in a Ph.D.

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Dorothea Buck’s Memoir Tells of the Horrors of Twentieth Century Psychiatry: A “Hell Amidst Bible Quotes”

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I learned of Buck’s life and her book through an obituary in The New York Times. Buck wrote her story at the urging of journalist Hans Krieger, and the book appeared in German under the pseudonym “Sophie Zerchin”—an anagram for the German schizophrenie —in 1990. It’s available at punctum books , as a physical book or a free download.