Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

These beliefs have been shaped by NIHs National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) and by psychiatrists, whose opinions regarding mental health care are trusted by the public. Put to the test, they were unable to demonstrate that the mental disorders are biological illnesses. A psychiatric textbook (Silverman, C.,

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Mad in America

MARCH 22, 2025

” Under previous editors, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics became one of the worlds most respected mental health journals, known for its incisive, world-leading critical research that pushed boundaries and improved practice,” Davies said. Indeed, a search of Mad in America turns up 102 references to this journal.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). In 2006, the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) published four reports on STAR*D outcomes. There was one other red flag.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. They justify this with the 2006 reported results of the NIMH-funded “ Sequenced Treatment Alternatives to Relieve Depression (STAR*D). But What If It’s Broken?”

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

Here is the cover from that issue: In his essay, Miller repeatedly stressed that ever since 2006, the STAR*D study had stood “out as a beacon guiding treatment decisions.” Two years later, in a National Institute of Health study that compared Zoloft to St. Prozac, a psychiatrist told The New York Times , “is not like alcohol or Valium.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine. It was a fun thing to do, and we launched it in the British Medical Journal on April 1 st , 2006. I started writing books.

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