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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? Once that happens, health insurance companies say okay, if it’s a disease in the brain, why should we pay for talk therapy? James Moore: Mary has sent in some questions and her first is, in the past, there were other tools used to at least try to help folks in crisis.

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Beyond Paternalism or Abandonment in Mental Health Care: An Interview with Neil Gong

Mad in America

Broadly, it was driven by well-documented abuse and neglect in asylums, spiraling hospital costs, and an overly optimistic faith in new medications. Many of these programs don’t even take insurance, so well-off families pay cash, making them the true clients. The history of deinstitutionalization is complex.