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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

He maintains an active program of research in the pharmacoepidemiology of controlled substances including opioids, cannabinoids, and other controlled substances, behavioral neurology methods development and quantitative medical ethics. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Cosgrove: Yes.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

However, Miss Brown will discover that John boy buys his lunch from the cafeteria, and since she’s not allowed to withhold food from him, he goes to the cafeteria to buy his lunch. He returns “promptly” thirty-five minutes later and explains that “the line was long” or that “they ran out of food and had to make more.”

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

Economic Stability: Financial resources available to an individual, income, cost of living, poverty, food security, and housing stability. Neighborhood and Built Environment: Housing quality, transportation access, availability of nutritious foods, pollution levels, and neighborhood crime.

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

Mad in America

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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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

Just being Asian-American and eating a diet that is informed by the wonderful traditions in Korea, China, and Japan means that either the whole family changes its orientation to food or the person with hypertension is going to be, in a sense, left out. Does that get taken into account by doctors? Generally, not.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. I think the question is, will we ever have that?

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Once those are under control, they can get still, slow down, and have an inner conversation to uncover the true anxiety at the heart of it all.