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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

But the structures we have—the system of caregiving, the enormous importance of finance in caregiving, the idea that patients are profit centers—undermine care. The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology. It produces burnout.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

It’s five years of study and in the last year, you work as a psychologist under supervision. Medical school is six years and during the last one to two years, you work as a doctor under supervision. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. You don’t serve the hospital.