Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. They also tend to rely at times on scientifically invalid tests due to lack of adequate research funding, and treatment remains inaccessible due to lack of coverage from insurance.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

At that time, I already had a personal blog based on my first book, Mad in America, and I began running other blogs. That was a book that told of how, when you look at the long-term effects of psychiatric medication, you see a form of treatment that worsens aggregate outcomes. More aware of a need for humility.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. Why should we pay for anything else? Whitaker: Yes, these fit in hand in glove.

Pharmaceuticals 138

Pharmaceuticals Biopsychosocial model Aging and mental health Hospitality 138

Mad in America

AUGUST 28, 2024

Even at 17, I had enough awareness to recognize that something was seriously wrong with that experience, that there was something fundamentally flawed in the way we treat people. Russell: At this point, many people are aware that trauma is a major factor that can lead to psychosis.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

In Australia, the economic cost has been particularly damaging to the life insurance industry who often pick up the cost of income protection for workers who have been diagnosed with a mental disorder. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His book, The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture , is a stunning critique of how modern medicines mechanistic view of the body has dulled our sense of what it means to be alive. As a result, our house was filled with books on existentialism and phenomenology from her college days. And she didnt just say itshe lived it.

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