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

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In addition to these theories, todays cutting-edge members of establishment psychiatry are offering up new neurotransmitter theories and repurposing old drugs to fit these theories; for example, the International Bipolar Foundation 2017 presentation: Ketamine, Glutamate, and the Future of Mood Therapeutics.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Five)

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667 In an NIMH study of 547 patients that compared six-year outcomes for depressed people treated for the disorder and those who eschewed medical treatment, the treated patients were three times more likely than untreated ones to suffer a cessation of their principal social role and nearly seven times more likely to become incapacitated.