Behavioral Collective Podcast

MARCH 7, 2023

Based on her experience as a mother and behavioral health practitioner, she authored the incredibly insightful and evidence-based book The Parent’s Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder (2020). There really are takeaways relating to any child, and not just for those who are parenting a child with ODD.

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Biopsychosocial model Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain 52

Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. 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.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Pharmaceuticals Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 143

Mad in America

JULY 17, 2025

Books such as The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz and The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey argued that the very concept of mental illness was meaningless. Other somatic interventions for mental illness, such as lobotomy and insulin coma, were as discredited as bloodletting. A bad metaphor. An excuse.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Hospitality Bipolar disorder 105

Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?

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Genetics and mental health Education Self-awareness Construction 145

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

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. Should we give up the search for biomarkers altogether?

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Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 120

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. I decided to agree with the medical model, that it was a genetic disease that could be treated with a medication, like diabetes. Being a brain doctor, he focused on the headaches. I was angry.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health 143

Mad in America

JANUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It.

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Healthcare Self-awareness Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy 82