United States – A New Vision for Mental Health

Suicide Rates and Prescription of Antidepressants

Author: Editorial 16th February 2024 0 Comments

This study by Simone Amendola, Martin Plöderl, and Michael P. Hengartner has been published by Crisis (The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention). The abstract says: “Background: Previous ecological studies reported that increasing antidepressant prescriptions were associated with decreasing suicide rates. …
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collaborative practice

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Social Order/Mental Disorder: Anglo-American Psychiatry in Historical Perspective

Author: Editorial 30th June 2022 0 Comments

This book is from Prof. Andrew Scull. The publishers say: “Social Order/Mental Disorder represents a provocative and exciting exploration of social response to madness in England and the United States from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Scull, who is well-known for…
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a coherent system

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