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Federal Physician Malpractice Database May Not Work as Intended
From Crain’s/Modern Healthcare: “Hospitals appear to be skirting federal requirements to report clinician malpractice or hospital privilege
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How to Distinguish Antidepressant Withdrawal from Relapse
In a new article in BJPsych Advances, researchers Mark Horowitz and David Taylor provide advice on how to tell the difference between antidepressant
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Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”? | Bruce Levine
From CounterPunch: “The jettisoning of the chemical imbalance theory should have been uncontroversial twenty-five years ago, when it became clear
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Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”? | Bruce Levine, PhD
From CounterPunch: “The jettisoning of the chemical imbalance theory should have been uncontroversial twenty-five years ago, when it became clear
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Thomas Insel Makes A Case for Abolishing Psychiatry
Thomas Insel’s book Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health is getting a fair amount of media attention, which could be expected
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The Roots of Pathology: Authoritarianism Towards Babies | Darcia Narvaez
From Kindred Media: “Clinician James Clark Moloney wrote The Magic Cloak around 70 years ago, lamenting the state of mental health in the United
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The Roots of Pathology: Authoritarianism Towards Babies | Darcia Narvaez
From Kindred Media: “Clinician James Clark Moloney wrote The Magic Cloak around 70 years ago, lamenting the state of mental health in the United
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The Abused Children to Bipolar Pipeline
When I think of my childhood, I think of fear. I think of the constant worry that something would upset my parents. I think of trying to protect my
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Undisclosed Industry Payments Rampant in Drug-Trial Papers
From Nature: “One in four Australian medical researchers involved in drug trials failed to declare money they had received from pharmaceutical
Trans Lifeline: Naming Trans-Specific Harm in Mental Health
Interim Hotline Manager Jahmil Roberts and Advocacy Director Yana Calou from the Trans Lifeline work towards connecting trans people to the community
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How Melissa Lucio Went From Abuse Survivor to Death Row
From The 19th: “Executions of women are rare in the United States — 17 in the last half-century, compared with more than 1,500 men — but they
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Mad by Design: An Ancient Paradigm of Psychiatric Thought
There would appear to be a 2,500-year-old medical consensus that madness stems from “the three Ds”: disease, defect, dysfunction. The Hippocratic
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Did Psychiatry Ever Endorse the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression?
In a new article published in the journal Mental Health, Benjamin Ang and his colleagues explore how psychiatry championed the debunked “serotonin
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That Time When the Psychiatric System Went Too Far…
From Dr. Joanne Cacciatore: “Yes, this time, the psychiatric system has gone too far. Again. They’ve taken what is sacred and they’ve
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That Time When the Psychiatric System Went Too Far… | Joanne Cacciatore
From Dr. Joanne Cacciatore: “Yes, this time, the psychiatric system has gone too far. Again. They’ve taken what is sacred and they’ve