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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

Mad in America

However, I knew from my research for my first book, Mad in America, which was published in 2002, that the chemical imbalance story, while being actively told to the public, was belied by the science. Studies of patients hospitalized for depression in the first half of the 20 th century, both in the U.S.

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm. medical schools. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

Mad in America

There is no more important institution in establishment psychiatry than the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and in 2022, psychiatrist Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, stated in his book Healing , The idea of mental illness as a chemical imbalance has now given way to mental illnesses as connectional or brain circuit disorders.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Mad in America

639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. 209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. I selected one whose website exuded a sense of bureaucracy.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

In 2002, the Journal of the American Medical Association ( JAMA ) published a study comparing depression remission outcomes of a placebo to the herb St. Later in 2002, a leading researcher of the placebo effect, Irving Kirsch, examined 47 drug company studies on various antidepressants. John’s wort and to Zoloft.

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International Women’s Day: Interviews with Drs Joanne Fegan, Maeve Doyle and Atiqa Rafiq

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Although retired from my substantive post, I continue to work as a liaison psychiatrist in Tallaght University Hospital for 2 days per week for the past 5 years. She did MBBS from Fatimah Jinnah Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan and started training in psychiatry in Ireland in December 2002. Read Dr Rafiq's Interview 1.