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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. Antibiotics and insulin were genuine scientific breakthroughs.

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

Mad in America

We all have lived in families of different constructions. Typically, when consulting a medical professional, families are advised to accept a hopeless diagnosis that primarily attributes biological causes to the confounding behavior. Are there any perfect families? Follow-up research will evaluate the training.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

In the nonprofit sector, she launched and consulted for 320 nonprofit organizations in 31 states, and raised more than $20 million for community causes and charities. Entrepreneur, consultant. Dave Conord is a growth strategist, business leader and consultant. Dave Conord.