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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

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S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond.

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Confessions of an Ad Writer: How I Helped Turn Atypical Antipsychotics into a Billion-Dollar Industry

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But over time, I found myself at the center of a campaign that would help transform how mental illness—and its treatment—are understood in the U.S. J&J had acquired two companies during the merger frenzy of the mid-1990s: McNeil, which marketed aging Haldol, and Janssen, which made the newer Risperdal. The problem?

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

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His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.