Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When Nietzsche said this of Dostoevsky in 1888 (and again, more forcefully in Twilight of the Idols , published the following year), he was likely referring to the psychology of Wilhelm Wundt. What dooms Dostoevsky’s character’s, what cuts them off from their soul, is what award-winning translator Richard Pevear refers to as ‘inner fixity’.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2024

I draw my understanding of modernity from Anthony Giddens , according to whom, ‘modernity refers to modes of social life or organisation which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

These are the types of patients that are often referred to our practice. I refer to the above-mentioned treatment methods as irrational polypharmacy. A few of our patients have developed delusional thought disorder that persisted for months even after the medication was discontinued.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The disappointing CATIE and STAR*D studies T he two sane authors of the first chapter of the 1065-page textbook noted that naturalistic studies—which they did not reference but mentioned by name, CATIE, STAR*D, and Storebø 2016—have shown smaller effects than those the drug companies have advertised.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2024

The debate editor wrote to me that they, unfortunately, could not publish it, as the article I referred to did not contain factual errors. I wrote a short comment to the newspaper, which I expected them to publish, as the article contained factual errors.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From OK Doomer : “These days, the phrase ‘mental health’ refers to your ability to engage in surface acting. It has very little to do with your actual emotions or sense of wellness. It has everything to do with how well you can continue fitting in with a group and how much you can contribute to the economy.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Institutionalization refers to the establishment of large, bland, uniform, impersonal, hierarchical, bureaucratic, and coercive entities that increasingly rule our lives. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

Genetics and mental health 145

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Mad in America

JANUARY 10, 2025

Miranda Frickers concept of epistemic injustice refers to the mistreatment of individuals as knowers or conveyors of knowledge. Helene Speyer, MD, PhD, is a consultant psychiatrist and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Headlines frequently refer to research participants describing their psychedelic experiences as among the most meaningful in their lives, helping them cope with past traumas or face impending ones. This contributes to a view of psychedelic experiences as intense, but also meaningful and transformative.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

Rush is often referred to as “the father of American psychiatry,” and his image long adorned the seal of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), the guild of American psychiatrists. Some doctors,” Greenstone notes, “referred to his practices as ‘murderous.’”

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The editors also asked us to write about the benefits and to mention that “some antidepressants may be more effective than others”, with reference to the fatally flawed 2018 network meta-analysis in Lancet by Andrea Cipriani and colleagues ( see Chapter 8, Part Thirteen ). 616 To see the list of all references cited, click here.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Callers who were already on psychiatric drugs were referred for behavioral treatment, leaving the matter of these drugs alone. In the above, I am not indicting all of healthcare, particularly what is referred to as Blue Ribbon or award-winning medicine, which I believe is undoubtedly the best in the world.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

I did not get jokes, or references to famous people, places, or events. Attempting to make new friends four years after ECT, four of us, I being the new member of the group, went skiing and snowshoeing up to a remote backcountry hut. When we settled in at the hut, I was like a bump on a log. I sat with a blank mind and nothing to share.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The authors of the 2017 Leucht meta-analysis said, with reference to the 1964 study, that 61% versus 22% of patients were much improved, which appear nowhere in the cited article. References [1] Gøtzsche PC, Lund K. I shall write more about the pivotal Norwegian court trial later. Tvangsmedisinering må forbys. 2] Gøtzsche PC.

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Mad in America

JUNE 24, 2024

Thus, the study essentially compares increased mortality between those who were on an extremely low, “ineffective” dose and those who were on the usual dose, referring to the usual dose as a “high” dose.

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JUNE 11, 2024

This hindrance refers to the almost constant drive to seek pleasure and comfort while avoiding pain and discomfort. Sloth and torpor refer to the hindrance of physical laziness and mental laziness respectively. The Five Hindrances include: Sensual Desire. Sloth and Torpor.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Correction: There is no evidence for making such an unequivocal statement and/or referring to a Danish study. It has not been possible for the editors to provide the necessary documentation for the precise statement afterwards, which is why the viewer is left with a false impression.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It is so bad that I argued in my most recent, freely available book – with reference to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Courtwhy I find that psychiatry is a crime against humanity. Psychiatric leaders continue to deny the disturbing facts.

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Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2024

The authors write that antipsychotic effects on the self and identity are often not considered in the clinical discussions surrounding their use and that a better understanding of the complex interplay of factors that impact an individual decision to take or discontinue antipsychotics is crucial.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In the field of psychotherapy, the term ‘transference’ refers to the attitudes, feelings, desires, and fantasies that a patient holds towards their therapist. Hospital departments hold ‘business meetings’, patients are referred to as ‘consumers’, and austerity doctrine reigns.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The law empowers family members, social service providers, police, and first responders to refer primarily unhoused people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other severe mental illnesses to a regime of civil courts that would compel them to accept a ‘care plan’ handed down by a judge.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

Most of the explanation about our supposed deceptive practices, criticism of our scientific credentials and pejorative language, such as references to ‘social activism,’ ‘opinion-based propaganda,’ ‘foist their beliefs’ were added subsequently. These changes presumably reflect the suggestions of referees or the journal’s editors.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2024

When I now type “psychosis” into Google, the search results refer to an illness, a mental health disorder, a state where a person’s sense of reality is disturbed, there are hallucinations, difficulties in distinguishing what is real and what is not.

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Mad in America

MAY 9, 2024

From an institutional-regulatory perspective all that counts, anyway, is that the correct words are there to demonstrate policy adherence; what they mean or refer to is unimportant.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Armed with the settlement funds, tribes across Indian country are launching their own treatment programs incorporating their culture and values, a strategy sometimes referred to as ‘Indigenizing’ addiction care and harm reduction.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So many complex trauma survivors like to believe ‘it wasn’t that bad’ CPTSD survivors have no point of reference for what life could look like. In those with CPTSD, the nervous system remains prepared for danger always. Complex trauma survivors think they’re broken. Attachment trauma is complex trauma.

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How Psychiatry Works

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Reference: Marsh, T., & Those promote the “common factors” that set the table, but the critical function of insight is that it helps with fulfillment of conditions for change in subcortical locations outside the reach of consciousness. & Boag, S. Frontiers in Psychology, 4.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2025

39 References 1 Gtzsche PC. Reduction of suicidal thoughts with paroxetine in comparison with reference antidepressants and placebo. Unsurprisingly, psychotherapy has an enduring effect that clearly outperforms the effect of depression drugs in the long run. Deadly psychiatry and organised denial. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They included the usual falsehoods, e.g. that antipsychotics emptied the asylums and made it possible for people to live normal lives, and that “pharmacological treatments have been shown to reduce the risk for suicide” (avoiding mentioning which drugs they were), with no references, only vague statements like “an extensive body of data.”

Sleep and mental health 145

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

That bears out in the data; instead of referring students to mental health services, spyware more often sends students to disciplinary officers, or even law enforcement , who are not adequately qualified to provide short or long-term care. It seems obvious that surveillance is not the answer to the mental health crisis.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

20 It has three full pages describing imaging studies in depression, with many references. To see the list of all references cited, click here. One of the textbooks, Clinical Neuropsychology , which has three psychologists as editors, exemplifies this issue. There is a huge risk that they will be harmed.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This textbook claimed, with no references, that studies from the London School of Economics show that it is a really good business for society to offer treatment of psychiatric disorders. To see the list of all references cited, click here. When I point this out to them, they have no shame or regrets.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Except for what I will refer to as Blue Ribbon Medicine, a great deal of the medical care delivered in the U.S. To see the list of all references cited, click here. .” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. W e are currently spending over $3.6

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Mad in America

JULY 20, 2024

For example, Adame refers to the school’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests on campus this past spring, which Adame describes as “overly forceful.” “It It was very violent,” she says. “I I saw a lot of students that were angry… And this was happening during finals, so I know a lot of people that didn’t even finish the semester.”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 22, 2025

LeFever Watson: The lead developmental pediatrician basically said, If we don’t diagnose them, there will be no reason for the community pediatricians to refer patients to me. They’ll just refer them straight to you. He was worried, in part, that his contribution to the multidisciplinary evaluation might not be necessary.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

This finding is similar to another recent finding, which referred to the placebo effect as “subjective beliefs.”

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