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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. During this, they are under constant surveillance with very limited outside communication, no internet, and no cell phone.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

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” To measure care, you would have to measure the quality of relationships, communication, clinical judgment, treatment decision-making, and patient’s feelings about following medical advice or not. The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology.

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Human

Mad in America

The best advice they could offer was that I communicate with the very same people who raped me, beat me, and tortured me since I was three. The doctors and nurses were writing my narrative; they controlled my present and future. Guilty of being angry, vulnerable, scared and abandoned. My captors lurked. They do not belong to me.

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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

Workplace Insight

In the UK, pharmaceutical firm ICI bought the dilapidated hall and 350 acres of surrounding parkland at Alderley Park in Cheshire in 1950 to create its own bucolic campus, which included farmland and ponds alongside the research buildings. More greenhouse than landscape. The real thing Still, nothing beats the real thing.

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A kaleidoscope approach to leading: Five perspective shifts that can foster innovation

Work Life

Facilitate strategy sessions, articulate the grand picture, and communicate strategies against the backdrop of this vision to keep the team aligned. In Tony’s work as a leadership coach, he worked with a pharmaceutical CEO who realized that her company’s long-term vision had become blurred.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

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MFI routinely reminds its Shield network to consider in all their communications that persons with a Shield are subject to retaliation.) He will not respond to voicemails, emails, or communicate in any way,” he told the court. “He At the August 19 hearing, Russell pleaded for a new court-appointed attorney. “He

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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So well that no Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) were needed to show they worked. They might be randomizing, and controlling with a placebo, but they were doing Assays—Randomized Controlled Assays (RCAs). Leber left ‘Randomization’ and ‘Controls’ in place in the new Assays. Who said no RCTs were needed?