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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

Mad in America

Australian researchers who tested the hypothesis that national mental health policies, programmes and legislation would lower national suicide rates, found the opposite in their study of 100 countries. In other countries, the same happened. Psychiatric leaders continue to deny the disturbing facts.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

Mad in America

The idea of ​​the interview is to talk about the work you have been doing and especially the book you wrote Reimagining Crisis Support: Matrix, Roadmap and Policies. I started the book project for two reasons. And that’s how I came to write the book. What would I say about some of these issues?

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The Situational Approach Workplace mental health policies and practice have had a huge impact on industry and the workplace, including an enormous cost burdenboth human and economic.