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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Author(s): Joseph F. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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You’re Not Crazy

Mad in America

on 13/8/2021 I d been wandering around Melbourne for days visiting friends and crashing with them while in a strange and often delusional mental state. Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. Being there made me feel like I was in that creepy movie Rosemary’s Baby with Mia Farrow. You’re not crazy.”

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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Brief Book Reviews: June 2025

Psychiatric Times

Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews.

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

Mad in America

Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Challenging the biological model of depression feels like a game of whack-a-mole: as soon as you put one theory to bed, another one sprouts up.