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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

The concept has been slow to catch on, however; about 8% of companies in Japan allow employees to take three or more days off per week, while 7% give their workers the legally mandated one day off, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Long hours are the norm. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co.

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How to manage conflict on your team when you’ve been avoiding it forever

Work Life

Inviting someone from outside the group—whether a trusted mentor, an employee from another team, or an external consultant—to explore potential sources of conflict can be a powerful way to ensure that people share the hidden issues they may be harboring. I’ve seen this countless times in my own experience.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

This is why consulting a doctor can feel like being nice to a policeman. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. As a result, we could only get the new miracles from a doctor. They go by the evidence.

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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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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

The first therapist I consulted, a gray-haired woman I’ll call Margaret, seemed ill at ease and unsure how to proceed from the outset. Like all three therapists I ultimately consulted, she held a master’s degree in social work. You really need support, help, consultation, peer consultation; these things are all important.”

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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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.