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psychiatry
The Fight for Pharma Accountability and Psychiatric Rights: Jim Gottstein, Esq
Dr. Awais Aftab (psychiatrist) has interviewed Jim Gottstein for the Psychiatric Times. Subtitled “A lawyer weighs in on pharmaceutical corruption and involuntary psychiatric care”. The introduction to the interview begins: “The Zyprexa Papers is a fascinating story of how Gottstein obtained and…
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It’s Been Utility All Along: An Alternate Understanding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and The Depressive Realism Hypothesis
Remembering a Quarter of a Million “Mental Patients” Murdered in the 1930s and 1940s
This article by Dr. John Read has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “In 1941, the staff of the Hadamar Psychiatric Institution—psychiatrists, nurses and secretaries—attended a ceremony and were each given a bottle of beer. The occasion was the murder of…
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How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance
A Decisive Blow to the Serotonin Hypothesis of Depression
This article by Christopher Lane has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “Almost as soon as it was floated in 1965 by Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Schildkraut, the serotonin hypothesis of depression —reduced and simplified by pharma marketing to the ‘chemical imbalance’…
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Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist
The themes of this video are relevant to how mainstream psychiatry – which dominates the current approach to mental ill-health and its treatment – has come to be shaped the way that it is. The video producers say: “In ‘The…
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Anxiety – The Inside Story: How Biological Psychiatry Got it Wrong
