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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. Antibiotics and insulin were genuine scientific breakthroughs.

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How the Medical Profession Pathologizes Emotions and the Damage to Patients

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Rather, it promotes shame, humiliation, and a sense of rejection from the very professionals to whom patients go for reassurance and a sense of safety. Whatever the reason, this approach does a grave disservice to patients and promotes continued suffering. The very idea that anxious people are “neurotic” is an antiquated notion.

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

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Hoping to produce more takers, especially among small and medium-sized businesses, the government launched a “work style reform” campaign that promotes shorter hours and other flexible arrangements along with overtime limits and paid annual leave. Fast Retailing Co., and electronics companies Ricoh Co.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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I was given a free first week as part of a promotion, and then charged $85 a week, which includes one in person weekly meeting of at least 30 minutes and the ability to text between sessions. 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.

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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link] Bloodletting Was Once a State-Of-The-Art healing intervention A comment on YouTube says the SNL writers consulted with historians to make their skit as historically accurate as possible. I suspect a primary problem is the pharmaceutical industry coming up with new pills to sell.

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

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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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The American Journal of Psychiatry’s Answer to MIA: A Silence that Speaks Volumes

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However, in the summer of 1990, the Prozac story started to come undone, and it was then that the pharmaceutical industry, in concert with its thought leaders from academic psychiatry, plotted the strategy that has successfully cowed the mainstream media ever since. And soon, this was the story that was being told to the public.

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