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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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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

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During the early years of this century the British Royal College of Psychiatrists energetically promoted an ‘illness like any other’ approach, in a well-meaning attempt to ‘Defeat Depression’. Effectively it backfired.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

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But society then became fully entrenched in the idea that mental health is a genetic or a chemical imbalance, which worked too well for pharmaceutical marketing. This genetic model, however, promotes a fixed mindset toward mental health. This creates an opportunity to work through them constructively. Siem: Thank you!

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Survivors and Families Working Together For Change: A New Project 

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Was the insulin treatment described to them in the same glowing terms that once promoted the benefits of lobotomies? We all have lived in families of different constructions. What about the side effects, the potential brain damage, the memory loss and the risk of death? Are there any perfect families?

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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. Neurodiversity, a term designed to promote acceptance, has become powerfully divisive. Whose power is being reinforced?

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. Sue Meitner. Mortgage expert, entrepreneur, speaker, best-selling author. Tom Truong. Real estate coach, mentor, entrepreneur .