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

Mad in America

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. As far I am aware, there is zero mention of iatrogenesis in the OCD literature.

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

National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

Identity, absolute sameness in all respects, is assumed as an empirical principle while partial identity is seen as self-contradictory. This will result, I think, in therapists expanding the limits of their knowledge using their self-reflexive and meta-communicative processes. As premises, these axioms immediately distort perception.