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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

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This pathologisation of suffering fuels a constant expansion of psychiatric categories, feeding the pharmaceutical industry and reinforcing the notion that there is a pill for every pain. Common human experiences — sadness, anxiety, grief, fatigue, disillusionment — are increasingly framed as mental disorders.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Did you find that the patients in any way fit neatly into these different diagnostic constructs? The pharmaceutical industry wanted to put a line between benzodiazepines and their new range of drugs. Whitaker: I understand why the pharmaceutical companies wanted this story, but why was psychiatry so interested in this story?

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“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian Dex Carrington

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Eventually, my life just spun out of control. I got into this headspace where I was like, I will not give the pharmaceutical industry one more dollar after what they did to me. Siem: I think it goes hand-in-hand with spirituality—or maybe whatever’s left when all the constructs fall away. I had to control everything.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

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Once again, a pharmaceutical had altered an essential part of my body. Countless supplements and over 30 different pharmaceuticals, I pretty much tried it all. The medical field has become complacent, prioritizing pharmaceutical profits, insurance companies agendas, and established narratives over patients well-being.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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The supposed freedom of choice conceals deeper forms of control. You identify two main drivers behind this rise: first, the explosion of pharmaceutical advertising in the 1990s, and second, the growing expectation that we must constantly market and network ourselves as prerequisites for a successful life. The result?

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

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Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry. These are all approaches which are user-led, or survivor-controlled, or led by psychiatrists with a humanistic approach. It has to do with the community psychiatric systemthe control is bigger.

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Grossly Flawed Paper Denies that Antidepressant Withdrawal Effects are “Clinically Meaningful”

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Global pharmaceutical revenue is about $1.6 The minimising begins in the title, where they use the term Discontinuation Symptoms, invented by the pharmaceutical industry to create the impression that the phenomenon in question is somehow different from, and lesser than, withdrawal effects. about $80 billion).