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Mental Health Advance Choice Documents ‘Would Reduce Sectioning’

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From The Guardian : “Fewer people with ‘mental illnesses’ would endure the trauma of being sectioned if advance choice documents – setting out a treatment plan while they are well – were included in Mental Health Act reforms, a leading psychiatrist has said.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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These substantial documents were full of episodes, symptom profiles, side effects, general health, family, work, and social histories. From 1955 to 1965, the first 10 years of the hospital rehabilitation and treatment efforts, participation in the program was documented.

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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

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I couldn’t help but reflect that my interview with him could have been more helpful in at least one concrete sense—that I could have paid closer attention to the emotional dimension of his predicament—had I not had the completion of this unwieldy document in mind. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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The WHO and the United Nations: Let Freedom Ring for the Mad

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T wo years ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a 300-page document titled “ Guidance to Community Health Services ” that called for a paradigm shift in psychiatric care, with the biomedical model replaced by one that promoted “Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.”

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Investigators Who Blew the Whistle On STAR*D Fraud Call for Retraction of Five AJP Articles

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In 2019, we published a Call to Action in the British Medical Journal documenting our concerns regarding protocol violations, 7 gave the STAR*D PIs fair warning of our intentions, and asked whether they would undertake the reanalysis themselves. The reanalysis was funded by the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials (RIAT) initiative.

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Gigantic Hoax on Danish National TV: “Patients with an ADHD Diagnosis Die Five Years Earlier if They Are Not Treated with Drugs”

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I therefore sent a complaint to Danish TV, which issued a correction on 23 September: “It has not been possible for the editors to provide the necessary documentation for statements in the broadcast on 15 July this year. I sent two reminders, but Philipsen did not reply.

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Conservatorship: The Racket That Ruined My Father’s Last Years

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When my father was diagnosed with dementia in 2010, I assumed the role of Successor Trustee, per the trust documents. Per the trust documents, I had already assumed the role of successor trustee. and hundreds of thousands of dollars in CDs, savings accounts, investment accounts, and oil and gas rights on their property. But no longer.

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