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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Robert Whitaker: Your longitudinal study of outcomes for chronic patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital wasand isof landmark importance.

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My Chronic Illness Was Misdiagnosed as ‘Mental Illness’

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I was in the hospital with an undiagnosable physical illness that presented with multiple, some would say peculiar, symptoms. I probably would have died in the psych hospital because they refused to let me go to the medical hospital for a feeding tube. And none of it was true—not even close. Why is this allowed to happen?

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

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I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

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Troubled Oregonians also contended with the absence of a specific definition of madness. The definitions were unclear enough that in a largely misogynistic culture, the standard was applied to women who were traumatized by domestic violence. The court would order the persons hospitalization. This facility still exists.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

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I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. Be it politicians, hospital managers, welfare bureaucrats, supervisory bodies, children’s services, psychiatrists, doctors or psychologists.

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Reflections on the RADAR Study

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People are often started on them during inpatient hospitalizations and there are many reasons to believe that the dose a person is on at discharge is not the MED. Hospital stays are brief and doses are increased rapidly. At the same time, I anticipate that is difficult to collect the kind of data needed to provide definitive answers.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

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Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Fee: There were definitely multiple. He was taking 90 milligrams a dayfar above the recommended dosage. And then he started abusing it, taking more and more. The hallucinations, the mood swingsit all escalated. But no one told us. They stopped treating him.

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