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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

By 2018, Americans were spending $17.4 This is why we hear more about antidepressants than about proven and effective lifestyle treatments for depression like exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy. Modern psychiatric care isn’t built on scienceit’s built on sales.

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TIFT #127: CBT and PDT Share the Same Infrastructure

How Psychiatry Works

These two psychotherapy orientations, Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (CBT) appear radically different, but the differences are more superficial and less fundamental. Readers of this blog will recognize three clinical requirements that universally explain what all therapies need to accomplish.

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Integrating Redemption in Psychiatry, Part 3: A Nod to the Late Brian Wilson

Psychiatric Times

2 In his September 1, 2018, blog titled “Achillean Romance With Fangs,” D.N. Religion-adapted cognitive behavioral therapy: a review and description of techniques. Redemption also comes out in novels, especially mysteries, perhaps not a surprise since they and their characters often reflect real life. Psychol Trauma.

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Compartmentalization In Psychotherapy

Real Psychiatry

Psychodynamic therapy has been manualized (Klerman, Strupp, Luborsky) and adapted to both crisis intervention (Viederman) and short-term settings (Sifenos, Gustafson). Hybrid versions such as psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy (Garret) and existential-psychodynamic therapies (Yalom) have been developed.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

Despite all this, STAR*D’s “nearly 70% recovery” rate has not only been trusted and reported by the mainstream media but taught to psychiatry students, including in the 2018 textbook 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know.

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Supportive Psychotherapy - The Clinical Language of Psychiatry

Real Psychiatry

An important concept in supportive psychotherapy is that many of the current manualized or structured therapy approaches were taught as supportive psychotherapy before they became what appear to be separate schools of thought. London: Elsevier; 2018. Cognitive Therapy of Depression. London: Saunders; 1995. 3: Oyebode F.

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Observational Studies Confirm Trial Results That Antidepressants Double Suicides

Mad in America

Kbenhavn: FADLs Forlag; 2018, page 119. Comparative benefits and harms of second generation antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapies in initial treatment of major depressive disorder: systematic review and metaanalysis. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2009;120:102-11. En lrebog om voksnes psykiske sygdomme.