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Desperate Measures: Ghaemi’s Response to Our Review of Lithium and Suicide Prevention

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But Ghaemi wants to claim that lithium is special—that it does more than target symptom mechanisms, it modifies the disease process that underpins bipolar disorder. 2007 ) to justify his criticism of our inclusion of zero event trials, references which are now up to 20 years old. Ghaemi cites Sweeting et al.

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

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There are many patients who have been diagnosed with so-called serious mental illness (such as so-called schizophrenia and bipolar disorder) who ultimately reject psychiatric treatment including psychiatric drugs, and become highly functioning.

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

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One of many psychiatrists exposed by 2008 Congressional hearings on psychiatry’s financial relationship with drug companies was Harvard psychiatrist Joseph Biederman—credited with creating pediatric bipolar disorder—who received $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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Are Psychiatrists More Mad Than Their Patients?

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Depressive and bipolar disorders: patients attitudes and beliefs towards depression and antidepressants. HHSA 290 2007 10060 I.) Delusions and the dilemmas of life: A systematic review and metaanalyses of the global literature on the prevalence of delusional themes in clinical groups. Clin Psychol Rev 2023;104:102303.

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

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This turn to ketamine is occurring despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has repeatedly warned that the FDA has not approved ketamine for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder (though controversially approving esketamine nasal spray). million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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But now they often say Since they have bipolar disorder, theyll never be able to manage their emotions or achieve any stability. Tanne, J Financial ties common between US medical schools and drug companies BMJ 2007, Oct 20;335(7624):793. Its debilitating symptoms will make their lives a constant battle. Silverman, E What money?