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Ready for a Flexible Work Arrangement as a Parent? Here’s How to Negotiate Better Hours

Success

Along with this, findings show that mental health, and the ability to balance everything from household workloads to relationships to finances, are top concerns. Now, progressive workplaces and initiatives such as The Mom Project are reframing that conversation and training parents to proceed with confidence.

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Book Review — Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most by Bill Berman and George Bradt

Workplace Psychology

shared a great story about “Jim” a VP of Finance, who took a CFO job in Chicago, IL. Jim took a job as controller of a pharmaceutical company 40 minutes from home. The stories provided by Flanagan, Pomerance, and Garbus offered real-life examples and further enhanced each of the respective chapters in which they were featured.

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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. How would it finance itself?

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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

You write that the way we train physicians, including psychiatrists, makes them blind to patients’ and their families’ illness narratives. 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. It produces burnout.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

His passion for teaching and learning has led to the creation of the True Psychiatry Network and the development of a mentoring program designed to address the most frequent challenges related to psychiatric training. Psychological training in Brazil, for example, is different from the American training. You serve the patient.

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The Power of Suggestion and the Problematic Insignificance of Significance 

Mad in America

Note that a somewhat grand effect may be something that indoctrination in the psychopharmacology mindset created by psychiatric training enables most psychiatrists to produce; no conscious deception is necessary. (I For men believe in the truth of that which is plainly strongly believed.”

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

Mad in America

The Carnegie Foundation financed Abraham Flexner to visit all the country’s medical schools in 1908. When the pharmaceutical industry realized their new tranquilizers could be sold to make psychosis more manageable, psychiatrists were easy marks for the promotional campaigns. By the early 1900s, most U.S.