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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. medical schools. Worldwide, there are parallels to U.S. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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

Psychiatric Times

Another example in the news was the recent death at age 82 of the well-known musician Brian Wilson, one of the original Beach Boys. In a rare interview in 2006 titled, “Brian Wilson - A Powerful Interview” for Ability Magazine , devoted to connecting authentic disabled talent, Wilson revealed some of what sounds like his redemption.

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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). “The esteem held by our field in the age of modern medicine rests on the validity of our scientific pursuits.

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“The New York Times Reruns Familiar ADHD Tropes”

ADDitude

April 16, 2025 Every few years, the ADHD community must endure another skeptic an author, a journalist, a contrarian mental health provider, quite frequently a chiropractor recycling claims like “ADHD is overdiagnosed,” “stimulants dont work,” or, most remarkably in one case, “ADHD does not exist.”

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Setting the Record Straight About ADHD and Its Treatments

ADDitude

April 16, 2025 Since its publication last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine article “Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong?” To be clear, identifiable biomarkers do not yet exist for many psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, and neurodegenerative disorders. Or bipolar disorder?” Or anxiety?

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

I n the early 1960s, around the age of two, I experienced an accidental overdose. The incident occurred after one of my preschool-age siblings managed to use a kitchen chair to retrieve the tasty but very toxic medicine, open the bottle, and then give it to me believing the “candy medicine” would help their baby sister feel better.