Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2025
Antidepressants are Americas first-line treatment for the most common mental health problems, e.g., depression, anxiety, and insomnia. Given that major depression is the mental illness most commonly associated with suicide, antidepressants should at the very least lessen its risk. That is not so.
Mad in America
MARCH 22, 2025
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. Indeed, a search of Mad in America turns up 102 references to this journal.
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Mad in America
DECEMBER 9, 2023
To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. W hat is a human being?
Mad in America
JANUARY 4, 2025
As such, the scandal now serves as a historical verdict on the ethics of American psychiatry, and by extension, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). This ongoing failure can be traced back to the publication of DSM-III in 1980, when American psychiatry adopted a disease model for categorizing and treating mental disorders.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
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. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?
Mad in America
APRIL 30, 2025
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.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 18, 2023
R ay Moynihan is an accomplished health journalist and author who has won several awards for his work. For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. This applies in the mental illness world and everywhere in medicine.
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