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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

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Robert Spitzer, who headed up the construction of DSM-III, acknowledged he knew of no such evidence apart from the few disorders I cited above. Ultimately, when DSM-5 was published in 2013, the manual retained the descriptive stance adopted for DSM-III, which had ducked specifying any biological causation for the disorders.

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

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

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Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

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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). 2006 May;78(5):889-896. Epub 2006 Mar 21.

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Compartmentalization In Psychotherapy

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They are constructed for business purposes and not clinical purposes and that is evident if you read a handful of the notes. Epub 2006 Nov 22. They need to be completed to get reimbursement and they need to be completed in a rigid stereotyped way but they cannot be counted on to reflect the reality of the session. Schizophr Bull.

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

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Psychiatry’s mental illness theories are a major component of what Antonio Gramsci described as cultural hegemony —the prevailing cultural beliefs of a society that are social constructs implemented by the ruling class through favored institutions so as to maintain domination.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold Although drug injuries are virtually absent from public discourse, available research considers them a leading health risk.