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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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” Under previous editors, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics became one of the worlds most respected mental health journals, known for its incisive, world-leading critical research that pushed boundaries and improved practice,” Davies said. Indeed, a search of Mad in America turns up 102 references to this journal.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Dr. Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who works in the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital.

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Do Critics of Biological Psychiatry Have an Alternative to a Life of “Whack-A-Mole”?

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Joanna Moncrieff, Chemically Imbalanced (2025) E stablishment psychiatry has recently switched the biological cause of mental illness from a chemical imbalance to a brain circuitry defect. Establishment psychiatry has shown this same unscientific thinking in its manufacturing of other biological theories of mental illness.

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Is Ondansetron Safe for Women With Mental Health Conditions?

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Navigating medication safety during pregnancy can feel overwhelming, especially for women managing mental health conditions. For women with mental health conditions, the decision to use ondansetron requires careful consideration.

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Recovery of Soul After 22 Years on Antipsychotics

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We humans need our dopamine and also the other brain neurotransmitters that are affected by psychiatric drugs, and even us, the “neurodiverse,” cannot really feel fully alive otherwise. Sometimes the stay at the hospital was very enlightening, though often there was a dark aspect that left me traumatized as well.

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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. I think that the stress of that triggered a series of psychotic episodes and he was hospitalized. I was also put on Prozac.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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In summary, researchers have found no serotonin nor any other neurotransmitter association with depression, no neurobiological associations, and no genetic associations. government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) , reported that among American adults, serious suicidal thoughts occurred in 6.6%