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

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Robbins is one of those rare thinkers who makes psychology feel alivenot just a collection of theories and data, but a field full of urgent, deeply human questions. Hes a professor of psychology and the director of the Psy.D. He earned his Ph.D. He earned his Ph.D. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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Modern Psychiatry and the Human Soul and Spirit: Is Our Freedom at Stake?

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To be a doctor aiming to practice the art of healing is almost impossible today due to the power of big pharma and insurance companies. Psychiatric medications serve to suppress and disempower individuals from claiming and digesting their own traumas and global sufferings. Is it not our responsibility to look deeper and ask, “Why?”