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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. The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. Pesky “mental illness.”

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

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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. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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

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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. The journal editor then required substantial revisions before the final version was published in 2023.

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Companies are quietly altering their DEI programs in the wake of legal action

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Sophia Danner-Okotie has ambitious plans for her Nigerian-inspired clothing line, but a sense of dread has punctured her optimism as she watches a legal battle being waged against a small venture capital firm that has provided funding instrumental to her boutique brand’s growth. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for January 31.

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

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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. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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The Fallacy of Modern Psychiatry: Treating Symptoms, Ignoring Causes

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and of course a host of pharmaceutical drugs. The societal expectations and legal consequences tied to these judgments reflect a departure from humanitys evolutionary roots. But these patternsseen as symptomsare shaped by systems and constructs psychiatry rarely questions. They are also more likely to be depressed.