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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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In recent years, there has been a growing awareness surrounding the adverse long-term effects of antidepressants, particularly concerning treatment-emergent sexual dysfunction (TESD). Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. He didn’t do much to develop evidence that that the thought was irrational, an important part of traditional CBT.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society. Its different elements often exhibit tremendous growth and vitality in their isolation, but they appear to have little awareness of each other. For the same reason, it remains painfully fragmented and siloed.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. More aware of a need for humility.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

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Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. It gives us a way to evaluate success and failure, a structure for self-esteem. From fulfillment.