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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

Mad in America

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. 10 Keller et al. Keller et al.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Definitely.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. As a result, there is no easy or definitive way of resisting the expansion of the number of people said to be neurodivergent. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant.

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Lessons In Political Violence

Real Psychiatry

Without invoking the famous Supreme Court quote let me provide a little detail about definitions. Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2). First, violence or aggression does not require physical act.