Mad in America – Page 9 – A New Vision for Mental Health

Antidepressants: The Emperor’s New Drugs?

Author: Editorial 2nd October 2019 0 Comments

Dr. Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies and lecturer in medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. In 2011 he wrote : “Antidepressants are supposed to be the magic bullet for curing…
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collaborative practice

antidepressants, Guy Sapirstein, HuffPost, Irving Kirsch, Mad in America, meta‐analyses, placebo effect, psychiatry

Is Depression Unhappiness?

Author: Editorial 4th June 2018 0 Comments

From an article by Monica Cassani (August 2013, Mad in America website): “I noticed in my wanderings through social media, after the article by Giles Fraser in The Guardian titled Taking Pills for Unhappiness Reinforces the Idea That Being Sad is Not Human , that all sorts of people came out crying ‘foul.’ How dare Giles, they…
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emotion-focused care

depression, despair, Mad in America, Monica Cassani, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, unhappiness