Definition Pharmaceuticals Self-awareness 
Mad in America
JUNE 11, 2025
When I’m with a client, I have the awareness to know what’s showing up for me, and that gives me the ability to show up for them. Being mindful is really just being aware of it. For example, I’m learning the power of stepping out of constant self-development and moving toward becoming a creator. Lee: It’s been way worse.
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. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Yes.
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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. Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study.
Mad in America
APRIL 30, 2025
Moncrieff: I was aware when I was still a fairly junior trainee psychiatrist that there were other people who were similarly critical of the mainstream medical model. The pharmaceutical industry wanted to put a line between benzodiazepines and their new range of drugs. Yet you co-founded the Critical Psychiatry Network.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. As a result, there is no easy or definitive way of resisting the expansion of the number of people said to be neurodivergent. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’
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.
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? This heightened awareness leads him to a breakdown.
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