Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Around the same time, I became convinced that, in order to prepare me for a higher position, the senior directors of the parent organisation had hired two international consultants: (1) a life coach and (2) an ex-CIA operative (to undertake a surveillance programme using the latest technology to investigate me).

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Guardian Australia previously revealed that the former government led by Malcolm Turnbull in 2017 awarded the grant to the for-profit company Innowell to develop a mental health app. Known as ‘Project Synergy,’ it was scrapped after health workers at pilot sites found it to be an administrative burden.

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Mental health apps Healthcare Technology 92

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

Dimensions instead of diagnoses To address some of these issues, in 2017 a group including Wright and Forbes created the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). The technology has helped. There’s just been this groundswell from different corners of the field saying, Hey, we need to be doing things differently.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Further, to loosely quote Linda Smith at a Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress 2017, Even if we remove these systems with the ideal to create new ones, the same minds will perpetuate and replicate the system we were moving away from. We can find the best local experts in permaculture, environment restoration, and food production.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 91

Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures. Psychiatry is undeterred by its repeated technological failures.

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Technology Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 144

Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

Through a freedom of information request, Mad in America confirmed this rate from a 2017-18 national survey of crisis call centers. Vibrant and SAMHSA have long publicly said less than 2% of 988 calls lead to such police/EMS interventions and hospital detentions—but haven’t released actual data.

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Hospitality Sleep and mental health Technology Legal 145

Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

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. had no clinically significant benefit over a placebo.”

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Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, he wrote a Mad in America blog, “What if the Folly Is in Us, Too?” Gordon Warme was kind of an endangered species, since many psych-professionals today peddle cures and new technologies. After many years there, he set up a private practice and taught psychiatry at the University of Toronto.

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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Early economic analysis by NICE suggests that these technologies could be cost-effective based on current prices and evidence. However, more evidence is needed to determine the actual clinical and cost-effectiveness of such technologies.

Aging and mental health 52

Aging and mental health Technology Hospitality 52

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 19, 2025

September 2017. Application of Wild 5, a Wellness Intervention in Individuals Taking Psychotropic Medications Yet Have a Moderate or Higher Severity of Depression (PHQ-9 Score of 10 or Higher). Poster session presented at US Psych Congress Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Rollin D, Blakely L, Tran C, et al.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

They often share similar behavior-shaping environmental influences such as extended family, cultural, religious, SES, educational, technological, legal, mass media, regional, political, and oppression/privilege based on ethnicity and gender.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 10, 2025

Lee, MD, has edited since 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump , going from 27 psychiatrists and mental help experts to now 50, one of them being myself discussing the drawbacks of the Goldwater Rule as I see them. One is the cover stories in the June hard copy monthly issue of Psychiatric Times.

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Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder Eating disorders Technology 40