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Brief Book Reviews: July 2025

Psychiatric Times

Higgins, MD These 2 compelling memoirs delve into the complexities of schizophrenia, showcasing resilience, friendship, and the impact of mental health. While this is an extraordinary accomplishment for someone with a serious mental illness, reading between the lines, it seems that Laudor lost some cognitive skills due to the illness.

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Mood Tracking: My System for Reducing Psychiatric Hospitalizations

Mad in America

It’s about learning to self-regulate, so that, if and when mental storms pass through, they no longer require such harsh societal intervention. I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1998. First, how many hours of sleep did I get the night before? I do not blame society for wanting to regulate unruly behavior.

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Intergenerational Gaps and the Role of Technology in Psychiatric Leadership: A Trainee’s Perspective

Psychiatric Times

As the newest cohort in psychiatric training, they are digital natives, accustomed to rapid information retrieval, online simulations, and mental health apps. 9 Another major technological shift in medicine has been the integration of electronic health records (EHRs). 4 Why Is Technology at the Center of the Conversation?

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Summing up the STAR*D Scandal: The Public was Betrayed, Millions were Harmed, and the Mainstream Media Failed Us All

Mad in America

As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Pigott and colleagues published articles in 2015 and 2018 on the STAR*D trial, and each time Mad in America reviewed the articles.

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Giving Caregivers a Platform: Meagan, Mother of Matt

Mad in America

For a period of four years, from 2014 through 2018 during his decline and overwhelm, Matt was prescribed five different antidepressants layered on top of one another without tapering, which ignited a cycle of adverse reactions. From that day on, he could no longer sleep. It begins, as such stories do, with common human struggles.

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Healing From Psychiatric Drug Harm, Part 2: Rational Approaches to Recovery

Mad in America

By the time I’d transferred to Dr. B in 2017, he had backed off using opioids in his practice and he told me I needed to go to a pain clinic, which I did in 2018. Had I gotten anyone else, they might have dismissed me as drug-seeking or mentally ill. Dr. B ordered a sleep study. She quipped, “ Everyone has bipolar.”

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Sex and Psychiatry: The Sizzling, Steamy, Neglected Topic

Psychiatric Times

Albright, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and founder of Sweetgrass Psychiatry, highlighted the neglected nature of sexual health in psychiatry and the need for better education and open conversations. Additionally, she always warns patients that certain medications could potentially cause sexual health adverse effects.