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6 women on what they learned about starting a business in midlife

Work Life

Finding free time and freedom in midlife Judy Schoenberg and Linda Lautenberg started Evolve.Me—a career consultancy that works with midlife women seeking career pivots and reinvention—when Schoenberg was in her 40s and Lautenberg was in her 50s.

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

Mad in America

Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

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I clearly remember the time when I dared to pose a question during one of our lectures: We were learning about asthma, and I asked why it was that I suffered from wheezing after a thunderstorm but at no other time. The ward round was a time when the consultant showed his (rarely her in those days) colours.

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

Mad in America

I spent a long time in OCD therapy and learned a lot about the field. 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.

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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It seemed then that pharmaceutical companies had discovered scientific, targeted treatments for depression, free of side effects. If you have concerns or want to consider discontinuing your medications, only do so after consulting your prescriber.

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Human

Mad in America

I thought that if I consulted with another psychiatrist to alter my medication, I would eventually feel almost human. He diagnosed me with ‘Major Depressive Disorder’ after a twenty-minute consultation and prescribed me my first ‘antidepressant’, Venlafaxine. I asked my psychiatrist during our final consultation.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

Nemeroff and Schatzberg declared 17 industry ties each: Dr. Nemeroff has been a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi, Neurocrine Biosciences, Organon, Otsuka, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.