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Overcoming Disaster Fatigue, Part 2: Some Solutions

Psychiatric Times

Increase emotional strength with a renewed vision and community support, but also be aware that too much resilience can be numbing and thereby even risky. It may seem paradoxical, but those who care most and work most to prevent and address disasters often have the most difficult mourning process because they did care so much.

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Reporting from Canada, #3: A Holocaust Survivor Story

Psychiatric Times

Steven Moffic, MD Series | Psychiatric Views on the Daily News Key Takeaways Holocaust survivor stories reveal psychiatric implications, including PTSD and intergenerational trauma, with resilience often aided by community support and personal resilience. He presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).