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Brief Book Reviews: July 2025

Psychiatric Times

Saks; Grand Central Publishing, 2007 368 pages; $14 (paperback) Reviewed by Edmund S. You will easily integrate into the most interesting aspects of the story while preserving time for other projects. Regardless, it is a fascinating, heart wrenching story. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness Elyn R.

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Grace vs Shame

Dr. Deb

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Self Care Tips for Winter Months

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Reverted Rights Celebration!

Dr. Deb

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ANMH Commends us surgeon general’s Advisory on youth mental health Crisis

ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

Prior to COVID-19, youth and young adults in America were facing a mental health crisis; between 2007 and 2018, the suicide rate among populations ages 10 to 24 increased by 57.4%. [1] Vivek Murthy and his office on the most recent public health Advisory, titled Protecting Youth Mental Health.

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

Mad in America

However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

In the mid-twentieth century, in addition to Illich, there were other prominent thinkers such as Erich Fromm and Lewis Mumford concerned that an increasingly technological, institutionalized, machine-like society was resulting in loss of our humanity.