Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

F or the longest time, the field of psychiatry remained silent about the STAR*D scandal. Ed Pigott and colleagues first published a deconstruction of the study in 2010 , detailing the protocol violations that the STAR*D investigators had employed to inflate the cumulative remission rate, and even after Pigott and collaborators published a RIAT reanalysis of the study findings this past July, there was silence from psychiatry regarding this scandal.

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Reidbord's Reflections

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Two senses of psychotherapy is political are often conflated. The first is the notion, popular lately, that psychotherapy either allows or demands political advocacy in the therapy room itself. The other is recognition that political factors influence the nature and practice of psychotherapy. It is a conceptual error to confuse the two, and a [.] The post Political advocacy and psychotherapy dont mix first appeared on Reidbord's Reflections.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. In recent years, teaching kids “emotion regulation” has become an increasingly large part of teachers’ responsibilities.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

Editor’s Note: This article, written by Heidi Tommila, was first published on our affiliate site, Mad in Finland. T he title of this article is from Jaakko Seikkula’s book Dialogue Improves—but Why? One subheading in chapter seven: “Psychological behavior is part of dialogue, not pathology.” I read the book last winter, but I’ve skimmed through it again a bit now and thought I’d write a few words about it.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2023

From Psychology Today/Annie Wright LMFT : “‘Why do I struggle to visualize a future for myself, let alone a positive one?’ In the 10 years I’ve been practicing as a clinical psychotherapist, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some iteration of this question. And the question is almost always paired with some degree of incredulity that there are people out there who can really, truly do this—think forward decades into the future and visualize a positive, happy outcome fo

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Mad in America

JANUARY 5, 2024

From Hole Ousia : “I see that there have been a number of responses to this letter: Reversing the rate of antidepressant prescribing. I worked as an NHS psychiatrist for over 25 years and as part of my continuing medical education regularly came across the work of a number of the respondents. British Psychiatry is heavily influenced by opinion leaders who are often paid by industry.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

From KFF Health News : “Living with diabetes, Carlton ‘PeeWee’ Gautney Jr. relied on a digital device about the size of a deck of playing cards to pump insulin into his bloodstream. The pump, manufactured by device maker Medtronic, connected plastic tubing to an insulin reservoir, which Gautney set to release doses of the vital hormone over the course of the day.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Creating Our Mental Health”: Welcome to a conversation between two social therapists who meet regularly to share and advance our therapeutic work. We hope these dialogues can support and stimulate others who are integrating developmental conversations into their therapeutic practices and personal growth. See the first post in the series for a brief explanation of what social therapy is and the perspectives we’re coming from in our dialogues.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the scientific literature on antidepressant efficacy and FDA approval. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

This cartoon is from my recently published book, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies. Martha Rosenberg is an investigative reporter whose work has appeared in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Consumer Reports, Public Citizen, the Center for Health Journalism at USC Annenberg, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University and other top outlets.

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