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Iatrogenic Practices in Psychiatry: Kindling

Mad in America

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Mad in Italy. The author, Laura Guerra, is the author of the book Stopping Psychotropic Drugs: How and Why and has translated books by Joanna Moncrieff and Peter Breggin. She has a degree in biological sciences and a PhD in pharmacology from the University of Ferrara. S ome psychiatric practices can have very painful and destabilizing consequences, sometimes of enormous suffering, for the person undergoing pharmacological treatment, such a