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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

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Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

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

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So I wonder, in your research, what did you come to think about the way in which we’ve pursued a definitive classification of mental suffering? Moore: And of course, it was an open door then for the pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t it, with their massive marketing dollars. They’re not just tranquilizers.

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

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When were you in medical school in the UK, were they teaching the DSM III disease model, or did you hear a different story about what causes depression? Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders.