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Brief Book Reviews: July 2025

Psychiatric Times

Higgins, MD These 2 compelling memoirs delve into the complexities of schizophrenia, showcasing resilience, friendship, and the impact of mental health. While this is an extraordinary accomplishment for someone with a serious mental illness, reading between the lines, it seems that Laudor lost some cognitive skills due to the illness.

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

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.