Thu.Dec 21, 2023

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2023 in Review: A Paradigm Shift Is Underway

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A t the end of each year, I like to ask this question of ourselves: Are we fulfilling our mission? Here is our mission statement : Mad in America’s mission is to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care in the United States (and abroad). We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society, and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

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Therapy by Script Undermines Healing; Connection Is the Key

Mad in America

“We need to describe how human beings unfold and become very beautiful when listened to. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. It is a depth of richness that needs only interactive reception to open out, step by step, into a creative self-correcting development with freshly discovered wanting, personal ethics, and unique work in the world.

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Can the Rate of Antidepressant Prescribing Be Reversed?

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From Psychology Today : “Earlier this month, a group of 27 medical professionals, researchers, patient representatives, and politicians decided to act on the data, calling for the UK government to approve guidance that would reduce and, ultimately, reverse the rate of antidepressant prescribing. The BMJ has to date published seven ‘rapid responses’ to the open letter.