Mad in America
MARCH 8, 2025
Little by little, he and the staff began to work together with these patients and aides as equals in running the place implementing education and work, shared decision-making, with interdependence considered higher than independence. We also documented any other hospitalizations which happened later.
Mad in America
MAY 9, 2024
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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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
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.”
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Consensus reality would have us believe that increased compulsory schooling equals increased education, however, a critical thinker questions this certainty. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 27, 2023
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. We need a movement to educate people about the harms. My mother passed away in 2001. ” His siblings all lived there, too.
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
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Mad in America
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. If we lose the leading psychologists, there is little hope for the patients who would then need to consult therapists with lesser educations.
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