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It’s You, It’s Not Me: Treatment Resistant Depression and the Psychiatric Breakup

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It showed up in the literature for the first time in 1974, when a small number of psychiatrists published some clinical observations of a “therapy resistant depression.” The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication. billion worldwide. It gets worse.

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

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Psychiatric News reported in 2024 that PubMed shows more than 400 trials of ketamine as a depression treatment in the past decade; however, it also reports that G. The APA publishes the DSM diagnostic manual, and PLOS Medicine reported in 2012, 69% of the DSM- 5 task force members report having ties to the pharmaceutical industry.