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

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Some neuroscientists argue that we should rather focus our efforts on the upstream social and structural factors, such as trauma and inequity , that create the conditions for mental health concerns to arise. A recent Neuroscience News article is titled “ Bipolar disorder can be detected with blood test. ”

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

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Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. S ince the onset of the pandemic, misery and mental disorder have increased, raising considerable concern about mental health. That has not happened.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

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Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

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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. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. Y ou bet it is!

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

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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. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D. He earned his Ph.D.

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‘A Playground for Predators’: Diane Dimond on The Abuses of Guardianship

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She’s also the author of several books, including Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case , which she wrote after years of groundbreaking reporting on the topic; and her most recent, We’re Here to Help: When Guardianship Goes Wrong , just published by Brandeis University Press. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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