Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. Their protests to the contrary have even been seen as indications of a personality disorder.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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? There I talk about depression, I talk about some of the so-called personality disorders. ” One person I really have come to respect quite a lot is Joanna Moncrieff.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

The conflation of ‘disorder’ with ‘identity’ is helped by the fact that, despite long lists of criteria, psychiatric diagnoses such as ASD and ADHD are ultimately based on subjective judgements (by the clinician) about subjective experiences (of the client), rather than on biomarkers—because there are none.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” Coming to The Truth, and Sharing it With My Family In every setting, a leader by definition has supporters.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Later, DSM-III-R (1987) expanded the definition to include sexual assault, and DSM-IV (1994) emphasized individual responses like fear or helplessness. However, there’s another problem: Given psychiatry’s lack of definitive diagnostic tests, it has always been vulnerable to malingering and simulation.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

Beck: I can definitely relate to that story. You identify two main drivers behind this rise: first, the explosion of pharmaceutical advertising in the 1990s, and second, the growing expectation that we must constantly market and network ourselves as prerequisites for a successful life. Take multiple personality disorder , for example.

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