Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2024

The altered states of consciousness in these cases are precisely altered by psychopharmacological drugs in the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine. I developed these exercises on body perception as a training director for a group of actors and actresses between 2001 and 2005.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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 ). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same.

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