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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. I’m delighted to get to chat with you about your work and your latest book. Moore: I’d like to go on to talk about your 2022 book entitled, Madness: A Philosophical Exploration. James Moore: Justin, welcome.

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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava

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This model, which is known as the biopsychosocial model, is recognized all over the world. Bob, I was very happy to see that in your breakthrough book, Anatomy of an Epidemic , you dedicated one chapter to the questions that I raised, because it’s important to have those discussions.

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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

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On the one hand, the biopsychosocial model is the most proliferated, which in theory acknowledges psychological and societal factors alongside biological ones, but slapping these three domains together within one model does little to elucidate the interplay between them.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. But do patients report the same?

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Her books include De-Medicalizing Misery , The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs , and The Myth of the Chemical Cure. Her latest book is titled Chemically Imbalanced: The Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. Moncrieff: I was reflecting on this when I wrote my recent book.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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He has helped pioneer integrative approaches that unite phenomenology and neuroscience, including a biopsychosocial model grounded in enactive and embodied cognition , as well as a person-centered, ecosocial framework for understanding suffering beyond reductive biological paradigms.