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

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Iatrogenesis is social when medicine as an institution and a bureaucracy creates ill-health by increasing stress; by subverting autonomy and community support; and by depoliticizing sources of illness. This alienation is of course quite stressful and a source of ill-health. The natural course of depression without any medication?

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

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I don’t think there’s enough actual oversight, whether civilian or governmental, of the mental health system, and it does a ton of harm.” In a 2005 paper , Gottstein wrote that the “involuntary mental illness system operates largely illegally.” Russell’s request was again denied.

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From the Dopamine Theory to the Outcomes Paradox

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Paradoxical’, because in contrast with healthcare outcomes generally being better in ‘developed’ (high income) countries, outcomes for those who had suffered psychosis were apparently better in the ‘developing’, lower and middle income countries. China, obviously, has its own large manufacturing capacity.