Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Being a former NIMH director, Insel should have told his readers about the poor long-term outcomes of treatment with psychiatric drugs, as documented in expensive and prestigious research funded by the NIMH, e.g. CATIE and STAR*D. Nothing in Insel’s narrative would harm psychiatry’s guild interests or pharmaceutical interests.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

However, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry, by skillfully manipulating the media, have convinced physicians and the public at large that these psychosocial factors in health are really brain diseases and there are drugs available that will effectively treat those psychosocial factors in physicians’ patients!

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Mad in America

JUNE 27, 2024

However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Yet psychiatry is happy to accept your patronage, the pharmaceutical industry is happy to keep pressing pills, teachers are content to pat themselves on the back for a job well done, and students are elated to receive a performance-enhancing drug. But the benefits go far beyond the chemical advantages of the drug. What are its benefits?

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The mental health industry, including therapists, pharmaceutical companies, and even heads of departments and trauma experts, have a vested interest in diagnosing as many individuals as possible. CBT helped her identify and challenge negative thoughts.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay. And that’s when it hit me: I wasn’t just there to document these places—I was on my own twisted journey through the seven stages of belief. In this, they were ahead of me.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 6, 2024

million to consumers after the FTC documented that it routinely released personal information to other websites. On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective. The company agreed to refund $7.8

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

While the ongoing logistics of maintaining such a network have proved challenging, one such successful effort in 2006 was documented in The Wall Street Journal. He also refuses to give me any documents … and he has had absolutely zero contact with me for the vast majority of the matters he has ‘represented’ me on.”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 14, 2024

Or perhaps the rejection of Lykos’ drug reveals something else: the powerful influence of the traditional pharmaceutical lobby at the cost of the upstart psychedelic industry. That is surely a problem, but it’s also a documented problem for other drugs. We may never know. Where Might This All Lead?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The editors say in their forewords to my 2013 book that I can be trusted but, more importantly, I have tried to document what I say so you can make up your own mind. Many books have documented that the psychiatric leaders have given up rational thinking for the benefits they acquire themselves from supporting a totally sick system.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. A focus on depression in Australia corresponded with similar campaigns in the US and the UK in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Karter: Well come back to phenomenology and theory, but I want to ask about your connection to critical psychiatry.

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Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication. It is undeniable that it has been helpful for the pharmaceutical industry, which continues to grow yearly, and as of 2022, the antidepressant market has reached $17.02 billion worldwide.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

As I documented in CounterPunch earlier this year, it is now mainstream to acknowledge that: (1) psychiatry’s treatment outcomes are “abysmal” and “not getting any better”; (2) the serotonin imbalance theory of depression is untrue; and (3) psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, the DSM , is scientifically invalid. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Indeed, there are numerous documented cases that show a link between SSRIs and school violence. Guptas skepticism about Robert F Kennedy Jr.s veracity on a number of health-related subjects.However, on the specific subject of SSRI antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil, and their link to school (and other) shootings, RFK Jr. has a point.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 17, 2024

What is at stake here with this discussion is the billion-dollar business that the pharmaceutical companies make with their unproven myth that mental illness results from a chemical imbalance in the brain that can only be corrected by taking antipsychotic drugs. Exile is particularly beneficial for Americans who are recovering from psychosis.

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