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Psychology’s Small Stories and the Call of the Other: An Interview with David Goodman

Mad in America

Its easy to think this doesnt apply to us, but anyone who has experienced involuntary hospitalization or coercion knows what we mean. However, you write that within this powerful therapeutic relationship, nowadays there is another party: insurance companies, HMOs. Ayurdhi Dhar: Thank you. Absolutely not.

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Soteria—A Human Response to a Human Problem

Mad in America

Soteria Israel operates two Soteria houses, based on the Soteria model, which offers a community-based, non-coercive alternative to traditional psychiatric hospitalization for individuals experiencing severe mental health crises, including psychosis. Medication use is typically less frequent than in traditional hospital settings.

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The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Mad in America

Over the next two decades, I cycled through seven psychiatric hospitalizations. This was my seventh hospitalization, and after once again being faced with this dehumanizing experience of forced drugging and lost functioning, I decided that this would be the last time. Like Laura, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age seventeen.

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Using Serum Drug Levels

Psychiatric Times

Finally, it provides documentation to justify why the medication was stopped or increased to off-label dosages, or to explain the clinical appropriateness of the treatment plan to an insurance company or colleague. The Rx Journey and Serum Drug Levels TABLE 2.

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Walking the Line: Navigating Student Mistreatment by Patients

Psychiatric Times

To Hospitalize or Not? Difficulties With Insurance and Patient Care: “Why Is the System So Complicated?” My Patient Overdosed and Now I Feel Guilty… EP: 15. The Many Faces of Catatonia, An Under-Recognized Clinical Syndrome EP: 16. I’m Just So Tired”: Fatigue in a Medically Complicated Patient EP: 17. This Is Not Me!”:

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Are We Sober Yet?

Mad in America

At that same time, I was working in an inpatient hospital that did detox and chemical dependency treatment. You can then also bill insurance for their recovery. Harm reduction told me that I was sober enough. Who was to tell me what sober meant? I mentioned this at an AA meeting one time and almost got run out of the room.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

Mad in America

He started working with me at the shop, and I tried to put him on my insurance. Thats when my agent told me,We cant write your insurance because your son is on Vyvanse. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. I put a lot of blame on insurance companies, too. I was shocked.

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