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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

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While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. As these terms become ubiquitous on social media, they play into the hands of a culture that shuns self-improvement and coping skills.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. So even their self-judgment is not proof of the merits of the drugs, even for themselves, because they lack knowing what would have been possible for them.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take. Psychosocially focused interventions may foster better engagement.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Four)

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of the patients, and the authors said that their study “provides new evidence to suggest little to no relation between use of a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and self-reported suicidal ideation.” Insel is aware of this and promises to investigate why mental health outcomes in the United States are so poor. This is mendacious.

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

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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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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. A huge benefit for students, parents and teachers in having Adderall and Ritalin-like drugs prescribed to students is the accompanying legal document: the 504 plan.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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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. More aware of a need for humility.