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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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This move “transformed pharmaceutical outfits into companies who market drugs rather than companies who manufacture drugs for the market.” Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If

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

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14 Many psychologists do not realise that they have a great advantage over psychiatrists, which is that they are educated with the aim of understanding the patients where they are and helping them with psychotherapy and other forms of support. Psychiatrists should be re-educated so that they can function as psychologists.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

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The DSM manufactures illness from normal human reactions by some individuals in response to some environments. While modern medicine has become increasingly impersonal, bureaucratized, and socially iatrogenic, the essence of psychiatry has long been one of social iatrogenesis.

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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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” It established its own press to publish books that would “provide much public education about the profession.” It created a division of publications and marketing to “deepen the medical identification of psychiatrists.” The company developed a four-point message that needed to be told to the public.

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A General Semantics Perspective on Language and Reality: Implications for Therapy

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He has a Masters in English Literature and was an assistant principal in English on the NYC Board of Education. The perpetuation of such projections, concludes Korzybsky, tends to keep mankind on the archaic levels of anthropomorphism and animism in their evaluation of their surroundings and themselves.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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Shield volunteer Annie Singer uploads regular videos across TikTok and multiple platforms updating followers on the campaigns and providing education on the issues. Somatics LLC marked a watershed moment for advocates who have fought for decades for ECT device manufacturer accountability. What other questions can I help answer?

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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Bristol Myers, along with the many other manufacturing plants located in the surrounding area, helped to grow and strengthen our local economy. By the mid-2000s, because of cheaper costs to manufacture penicillin in foreign countries, the plant downsized considerably.