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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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We cited research based on the clinical study reports the manufactures had submitted to drug regulators to get their drugs approved for children and adolescents and other research in our letter. 4,5 I asked Emslie and the manufacturer, Eli Lilly, if they wanted to restore the trials. The fraud was grave. 10 Keller et al. Keller et al.

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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). at the time of the study, indicating affiliations with pharmaceutical companies that manufacture antidepressants, including those under investigation.

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Elizabeth Loftus, False Memories and the Search for My True Self

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The gravitas of this was, of course, completely unknown to my seventeen-year-old self when I entered my therapists office in 1991 and sat down, speaking hesitantly to her about my life and the recent breakdown. I was also keenly aware that following her lead would contain both she and I and the therapy. Someone was lurking.

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RADAR and the Dignity of Risk-Taking

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The deinstitutionalization era marked a shift toward community-based mental health care, highlighting the importance of individual choice and self-determination. To create a mental health system truly based on the ideology of recovery, self-determination and human rights there needs to be a change.

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

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

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There was no placebo group, and all patients started on citalopram, manufactured by Lundbeck, which was motivated by horrendously erroneous claims of citalopram’s “absence of discontinuation symptoms” and its “safety” in elderly patients. 147 One paper stated in the abstract that suicidal ideation was seen in only 0.7%

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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?

Real Psychiatry

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. Will it lead to a typical Congressional show hearing where members manufacture outrage and nothing changes. It is a sign of just how corrupt, ignorant, and not self-correcting the American political system is - and just how much those politicians collude with businesses.