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

Mad in America

The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.

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Centanafadine Study: New ADHD Drug Effective for Adults and Kids

ADDitude

June 24, 2025 Centanafadine — a norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin reuptake inhibitor (NDSRI) — is effective at treating ADHD in adults, adolescents, and children, according to Phase 3 trials sponsored by the drug’s manufacturer, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals. Centanafadine had a significant impact on ADHD symptoms,” explained Tim Wilens, M.D.,

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

He had multiple hospitalizations for psychotic and manic decompensations in his 20s, but he has done well over the past 10 years, which you attribute both to his medication adherence and minimal psychosocial stressors. Teva Pharmaceuticals; 2025. Epidemiology, prevention, and assessment of tardive dyskinesia and advances in treatment.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

Mad in America

T he Vermont Longitudinal Study, which was led by Courtenay Harding, reported on the long-term outcomes of patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital in the late 1950s and early 1960. Robert Whitaker: Your longitudinal study of outcomes for chronic patients discharged from Vermont State Hospital wasand isof landmark importance.

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

Mad in America

Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital. One of the options it put forward was that coercive treatment and hospitalization should be based on capacity rather than a supposed diagnosis of mental illness. Whitaker: You really were being taught to understand the person’s life at the beginning.

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm. Corruption by pharmaceutical companies. medical schools. Iatrogenesis , which is defined as illness or injury caused by medical treatment.

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“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian Dex Carrington

Mad in America

I got into this headspace where I was like, I will not give the pharmaceutical industry one more dollar after what they did to me. So you sit there wondering, Do I go to the hospital? It kept me alive. Siem: Fear kept me going too—and anger. Once I realized what was happening, I was so pissed off. So what the hell do you do?