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Antidepressant Withdrawal: A Clinician’s Middle View

Mad in America

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. I still use the DSM because I need to pay my bills and I cannot send a diagnosis to an insurance company and say, “This patient is deprived of accomplishments, purpose, and social interactions.” You don’t serve the hospital.

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