Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. At the same time, I anticipate that is difficult to collect the kind of data needed to provide definitive answers.

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Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. Cosgrove: Definitely. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. Cosgrove: Yes.

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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MARCH 21, 2025

Also: A plea to Congress; an upside-down definition of waste, fraud and abuse. A psychiatrist and a patient respond to an article in Science Times.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

Prior to the days of pharmaceutical companies, there was no such thing as “depression”. One of Andrew Feldmar’s definitions of love is that “I could hurt you, but I won’t”. He believed that people’s strange behaviours were not mental illnesses. They represented “problems in living”. Scottish psychiatrist R.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

There was no consensus, other than to agree that the phenomenon ‘Schizophrenia’ resists a clear definition. It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research.

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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? 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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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

David and I realized there wasn’t a definitive, authoritative book for clinicians on how to stop medications. But I do think there needs to be a balance between the massive amount of promotion that there is funded by pharmaceutical companies to start these medications, and what limited information there is on how to stop the medication.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 1, 2025

00:04:54.970] – APSs zge Grcanl Fischer Baum Yeah, definitely. 00:06:35.740] – APSs zge Grcanl Fischer Baum Yeah, definitely. So as I say, this is being picked up by pharmaceutical companies, by computer science labs, by all the big tech companies, and they’re all based on our data. [00:08:23.600]

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How Psychiatry Works

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This form of neurodiversity comes with definite advantages along with the challenges. On the other hand, in the US, the pharmaceutical industry has promoted the idea that medication reverses human problems. This post is built on what I often say to adult clients with ADHD.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Then, probably the same year it’s picked up by Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, and other pharmaceutical companies who come along with their SSRIs, and they breathe new life into it and recruit this idea, which has already been disproven, to market antidepressants. They marketed this new range of drugs as SSRIs. This is not proven.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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Mad in America

JUNE 20, 2024

The therapy to which they referred was entirely pharmaceutical—it was always a failure to improve with medication. It is undeniable that it has been helpful for the pharmaceutical industry, which continues to grow yearly, and as of 2022, the antidepressant market has reached $17.02 billion worldwide. There were hundreds by 1990.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The results of this long-term, definitive, randomized controlled trial should stay the alarming enthusiasts who have advocated drugging perfectly normal people who have abnormal amyloid levels. Many people ages 65 and older have significant amounts of amyloid plaque, yet never have cognitive impairment.

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Mad in America

MARCH 8, 2025

It was called chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and was made from an earlier pharmaceutical in 1951 used to relax naval hospital patients getting ready for surgery. They were definitely not ready to leave. At this time, across the US there was huge excitement about a drug for patients and it was being tested.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place. Our understanding of key terms and definitions needs to be clear and consistent if our prevention efforts are to be effective.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

As a result, there is no easy or definitive way of resisting the expansion of the number of people said to be neurodivergent. These questions arise because, as we have seen, the definition of neurodivergence relies wholly on social norms. This conflation has other undesirable consequences, some of which we have already discussed.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Coming to The Truth, and Sharing it With My Family In every setting, a leader by definition has supporters. Yet here I was, drugged and unhappy all over again. My husband was also overwhelmed with disappointment. Even psychopaths delegate their heinous crimes to their followers.

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Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Fee: There were definitely multiple. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. One of the things that struck me, partly because it was similar to my own experience, was how many different doctors Richard saw. And hewas all of those things.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When you’re working with a client who has latched onto a metaphor, like the “broken brain” metaphor — which holds considerable cultural sway and is often endorsed by the psychiatric establishment and even pharmaceutical companies — how do you approach it? Each label slightly shifts its definition.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

So I just thought that maybe I needed to change pharmaceuticals, not change who I was and my perspective. She has a book called Radical Acceptance and I definitely borrowed it from her and have learned a lot of the concepts from her too. I wondered if we could talk a little bit about it. What does radical acceptance mean for you?

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Karter: Well come back to phenomenology and theory, but I want to ask about your connection to critical psychiatry.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. Doctors adamantly insist they are not influenced by adverts. They go by the evidence. Industry take them at their word. An automatism is another word for a hypnotic reflex.

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Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 141

Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his imagination, he confesses, he has a pretty definite foretaste of female sexual enjoyment in intercourse (p.239). It is based on the definitive biography of Nash by Sylvia Nasar with the same title, but unlike the book the film makes Nash seem to be a heterosexual.

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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.

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