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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

Did you find that the patients in any way fit neatly into these different diagnostic constructs? Back in 2005 or 2006 when Lacasse and Leo published a paper on the serotonin hypothesis which got some media coverage, Wayne Goodman responded. Moncrieff: Yes. Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

This tree was constructed looking at 12 exons (8,080 base pairs (bp) and 4 introns (3029 bp). Each cladogram is constructed with Bayesian analysis generating the respective bootstrap values from Markov chain analysis and posterior probabilities (see legend for location). 2005 Dec 8;438(7069):803-19. doi: 10.1038/nature04338.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

This report, written in 2005, revealed that the pharmaceutical industry aggressively marketed drugs, often using misleading information that minimized harms and exaggerated benefits (House of Commons Health Committee, 2005). Strachey (Ed. & & Trans.), Hogarth Press. House of Commons Health Committee. link] Herman, J.

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The Power of Journaling: What Science Says About the Benefits for Mental Health and Well-Being

Child Mind Intitute

Other research shows the benefits of journaling include: Improved emotional and physical health: Regular journaling enhances mood and emotional awareness and reduces stress levels (Baikie & Wilhelm, 2005). Effects of constructive worry, imagery distraction, and gratitude interventions on sleep quality: A pilot trial. Digdon, N.

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The Consciousness of Voices and Visions

Mad in America

I developed these exercises on body perception as a training director for a group of actors and actresses between 2001 and 2005. This process led me many years later to recognize that in my poetics metaphors are not constructed but are seen or heard, as visions or voices.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

My first column was about David Foster Wallace, whose ‘This is Water’ commencement address at Kenyon College (2005) had become a touchstone ( see transcript here , and audio recording here ). To paraphrase Wallace’s last words to the Kenyon College Class of 2005: We will need way more than luck.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

By 2005, Eli Lilly had amassed over $22 billion in sales from its SSRI Prozac; and Lilly’s antipsychotic drug Zyprexa, at its peak, grossed more than $5 billion in annual sales. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex is fueled by the profits of Big Pharma, which have made a staggering amount of money from psychiatric drugs.