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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

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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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

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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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

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.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

Mad in America

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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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

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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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

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.