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Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend

Mad in America

I dislike it for classifying human reactions that create tension—especially for authorities—as defective in some biological way, and for then exploiting this manufactured defectiveness by prescribing drugs and other remedies that routinely have serious adverse effects; and I dislike it for its financial partnering with drug companies.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?

Real Psychiatry

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. Will it lead to a typical Congressional show hearing where members manufacture outrage and nothing changes.