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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

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With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Business owners on our Main Street held pride in their neighborhood and took on leadership roles within our community.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Amina AlTai is a holistic leadership and mindset coach to notable female leaders and impact driven celebrities, and is the coach behind some of the most well-known female entrepreneurs of our time. Eventually, she became a sought-after inspirational speaker, transformational leadership trainer and certified coach. million views.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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And this is complemented by well-funded public advertising and promotional campaignsoften with overt government support. Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place.

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

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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. This is a profound loss for both the research community and the public.

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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava

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Here’s why this journal, under Dr. Favas leadership, was so important to us all. Third, his journal told of the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical money on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses and drug trials. Second, his journal told of how RCTs and meta-analyses when used to direct clinical practices can lead to harm.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

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Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Thats what the task force continues to do today, now under Sarah Kamens leadership.