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Americans are relying more on therapy than medication for their mental health needs

NPR - Mental Health

The number of Americans relying on psychotherapy went up between 2018 and 2021, whereas the number of people using psychiatric medications went down.

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What Kennedy Gets Right, And Wrong, About Antidepressants

The New York Times -- Mental Health

Prozac is nearly 40 years old. Why are there still unanswered questions?

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. Thus, any criticism of establishment psychiatryno matter how harshthat can also be applied to medicine in general does not threaten its existential legitimacy. However, criticism that uniquely applies to establishment psychiatry but not to medicine in general does threaten its existential legitimacy, and it is not tolerated.