Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

Bessel van der Kolk (2015) explains that even prior to the release of the DSM-5, findings published in the American Journal of Psychiatry indicated that it lacked the capacity to yield consistent and replicable results a major scientific shortcoming. The Lancet , 387(10034), 2339. link] Spiegel, A. 2004, December 26). The New Yorker.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A 2015 study found that more than two-thirds (69%) of those prescribed an antidepressant do not meet the criteria for the diagnosis of depression. One study in the US found that only 2% of those taking antidepressants actually had severe depression—with more than half failing to meet the criteria for depression.

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Child Mind Intitute

JULY 31, 2024

This involves using one object as another or pretending an object has different properties than it actually has (Lillard, 2015). 2015; Lindsey & Colwell, 2013). For instance, a two-year-old may play by having their stuffed dog walk and drink out of a bowl. Symbolic play emerges around age three. Gilpin, A. M., & Pierucci, J.

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Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

We started this collaboration together, and in 2015 we published the first systematic review on withdrawal effects of SSRIs. He is the author of the Theory of Supersensitivity Psychosis, which again is not a very popular theory relating to antipsychotics. There was an editorial by Guy Chouinard commenting on the findings. 200 against one.

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2024

2015), in a study of 30 people with psychosis, found that there was a high rate of insecure attachment and that in two-thirds of the cases the people used a spiritual representation as a person of attachment. Possible repair through transcendence? Huguelet et al. Secular Privilege: Deconstructing the Invisible Rose-Tinted Sunglasses.

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Reidbord's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2022

Dr. Tom Insel directed the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 to 2015. When one of Americas most prominent psychiatrists expresses deep disdain for depth psychotherapy, especially when that criticism is misinformed and hopelessly outdated, it should concern all of us.

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MAY 15, 2025

2015; Wieners et al., Related Research Topic: Giving Yet some research has found that people with mood disorders receive little benefit from engaging in prosocial acts (Gander et al., 2012; Kerr et al., Liu speculated that this difference could stem from study design. OBrien, E., & Kassirer, S. Psychological Science , 30 (2), 193204.

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MGH Center for Women's Mental Health

JANUARY 31, 2025

In 2015, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a committee opinion recommending [.] According to a recent meta-analysis from Fawcett and colleagues, about one out of every five women has at least one type of anxiety disorder during pregnancy or the postpartum period.

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National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW - the

APRIL 8, 2025

Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative (PAARI): Founded in 2015, PAARI partners with law enforcement agencies to create nonarrest pathways to treatment and recovery. These approaches help officers return to work successfully, so that seeking help does not mean the end of an officers career.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles. The public now had easy access to source documents that told of how the STAR*D investigators had deviated from the protocol to produce their inflated 67% remission rate.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

MARCH 19, 2025

In other words, doctors would decide who is deprived of liberty, but judges would decide who is treated. That makes no sense either.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 17, 2024

Along with David Goodman, he has also co-edited Psychology and the Other (Oxford, 2015) and, with Hanna Meretoja, has co-edited the recently published The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics (Oxford, 2023). Reimagining the Story of Dementia (Brill | Sense).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

I saved up to travel, and in 2015, I explored Colombia and Nicaragua, teaching yoga, exploring and meeting inspiring individuals. Although I was beginning to experience some physical problems like food allergies, IBS and anxiety, I had to figure out how to be medicated and be okay with it. No more attempts at getting off.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 28, 2025

A complementary study found that most 5-month-olds in Kenya and Cameroon were sitting independentlymuch earlier than babies from the United States, Italy, Korea, and Argentina (Karasik et al., One reason? In Kenya and Cameroon, mothers settle babies without any supports, so the babies get more practice.

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The Social Determinants of Mental Health Michael T. Compton, MD, MPH and Ruth S. ” While not specific to children’s mental health, this is an excellent resource for understanding how environmental and systemic factors affect individual mental health.

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Smith, PhD – NIH/NIMH, Bethesda, MD 2016 – Peter Nagele, MD – Washington University School of Medicine, St.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2015 and into 2016, I was still a believer in the pills and what the doctors said, but I was beginning to have my doubts. For a year or so things appeared to improve; the lateral shift to a new neuroleptic seemed to be the right, albeit more expensive, move.

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A recent SAMHSA document explains : “Draper and colleagues (2015) noted almost a decade ago that even though the 988 Lifeline’s imminent risk definition is unique given the inclusion of core concepts from the Lifeline’s suicide risk assessment standards (i.e., How exactly do call-attendants make this assessment?

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Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

MARCH 21, 2017

Harmer, DPhil – University of Oxford and Timothy Bredy, PhD – The University of Queensland 2014 – Eric Morrow, MD, PhD – Brown University and Andrew Holmes, PhD – NIH/NIAAA 2015 – Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins 2016 – Susanne E.

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National Association for the Advancement of Psycho

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Merle Molofsky , a NAAP-certified psychoanalyst, serves on the Harlem Family Institute (HFI) Advisory Board, the Clinical Experience and Supervision Committee of the Training Institute of NPAP, and the faculty of NPAP and of HFI.Her most recent book, Streets 1970 (2015), was published by International Psychoanalytic Books.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 3, 2024

So too readers of Psychiatry Under the Influence, the book that I co-wrote with Lisa Cosgrove, which was published in 2015. Mad in America readers have known of this scandal ever since we founded our website in 2012. The major media has remained silent.

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Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 17, 2025

Dont give up. References: Preface | National Institute on Drug Abuse. 2025, January 8). National Institute on Drug Abuse. link] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Todays heroin epidemic [Report]. link] Bose, J., Hedden, S. Lipari, R. Park-Lee, E., & Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 14, 2025

2015) Braeden Hall, Kathleen Schmidt, Jordan Wagge, et al. Robust Evidence for Knowledge Attribution and Luck: A Comment on Hall et al. 2024) Wesley Buckwalter, Ori Friedman Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. knowledge is JTB).

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The Maryland Psychiatric Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

MPS Council, 2007 2011 & 2015 2024, MPS Ethics Committee, 2009 present, MPS Distinguished Fellowship Committee, 2009 present, Chair of MPS Distinguished Fellowship Committee 2016 2020. Board Member, Maryland Foundation for Psychiatry, 2011 2018.

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Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Another hugely important member of establishment psychiatry is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), which has prioritized funding research on biological psychiatry (Thomas Insel, NIMH director from 2002-2015, famously stated : I spent 13 years at NIMH really pushing on the neuroscience and genetics of mental disorders, and when I look back (..)

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

2] A 2015 “State of the Art review” in the BMJ claimed that “Evidence supports specific psychotropic drugs to reduce the risk of suicide.” [3] The comment I made in 2015 on the Board of Health’s website. [40] BMJ 2015;Dec 10 and Gøtzsche PC. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015, page 97. [19] 4] There is no such drug.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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. When I look at the numbers—the number of sui­cides, the number of disabilities, the mortality data—it’s abysmal, and it’s not getting any better.”

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Mad in America

AUGUST 13, 2024

I n 2015, six psychiatrists from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, the UK, published the study, “ Depression and Violence: A Swedish Population Study ” in Lancet Psychiatry. It was a total population study that included 47,158 people with a depression diagnosis, matched by age and sex to 898,454 general population controls.

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The textbook authors might have referred to his 2015 Cochrane review, which found that every single trial ever performed of stimulants in children with an ADHD diagnosis was at high risk of bias. 650 In 2022, he published the book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

Christy Huff was a cardiologist who experienced a benzodiazepine injury first-hand after taking prescribed Xanax for just three weeks in 2015.

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2025

In 2015, there were 61 million antidepressant prescriptions. Back in 2002, about 90 million women were on hormone therapy. After that study, it dropped to nearly zero. What the graphic shows is that, instead of hormones, doctors started prescribing antidepressants. Another 25 million for Xanax-type benzodiazepines. Twelve million sleep meds.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

These and other data led to the development of the theory of interactive team cognition (ITC; Cooke, 2015; Cooke et al., Collaborating groups recall less than an equal number of people recalling alone, a well-established deficit called collaborative inhibition (Weldon & Bellinger, 1997). coordination), is essential for team effectiveness.”

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Including antipsychotics That first New Zealand survey was so productive I decided to replicate it internationally, when I moved, in 2015, to Swinburne University in Melbourne. Most alarming, perhaps, was the finding that only 1% had been told anything about withdrawal or the need to come off slowly. Clinical Psychologist, 22, 72-82.

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Mad in America

MAY 16, 2025

New York: Broadway Paperbacks; 2015. Copenhagen: Peoples Press; 2015. Whistleblower in healthcare. Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom 2025; April 8 (freely available). 3 Whitaker R. Anatomy of an Epidemic, 2nd edition. 4 Shifting the balance towards social interventions: a call for an overhaul of the mental health system.

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Mad in America

JULY 13, 2024

“ Methods that ignore information from double-zero studies or use continuity corrections should no longer be used ” ( Kuss, 2015). Including double-zero studies in meta-analysis improved performance substantively when compared to excluding them, especially when the proportion of double-zero studies was large ” ( Xu et al.,

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Mad in America

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2013, I estimated that our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer, 1 and in 2015, that psychiatric drugs alone are also the third leading cause of death. Copenhagen: People’s Press; 2015. FDA 2015;Nov 10. Psychiatrist.com 2015;Oct 21. London: Radcliffe Publishing; 2013.

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