Remove Biopsychosocial model Remove Neurotransmitters and mental health Remove Self-awareness
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Who Do We Leave Behind When We Ignore the Body? Why Critical Neuroscientists and Mad Activists Must Work Together

Mad in America

The prevailing logic goes: if we can validate biometric tests that are clinically predictive of mental health concerns like in other medical fields, we can more precisely, effectively, and without (solely) subjective clinical observation, treat the malady.

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

Mad in America

Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. 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? Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.