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

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Cosgrove: Yes.

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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

In this interview, Kleinman explores critical issues facing modern healthcare. Listen to the audio of the interview here. The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology. See prior interview with Mad in America.) Generally, not.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

Listen to the audio of the interview here. 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. Most people are eating foods engineered to be hyper-palatable and nutritionally depleted. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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May Cause Side Effects–Radical Acceptance and Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal: An Interview with Brooke Siem

Mad in America

She is also an award-winning chef and Food Network Chopped Champion. In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market.

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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. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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

Mad in America

FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Scientific experiments, like clinical trials, may have standards to avoid mistakes but they don’t operate to a standard any more than a clinical interview has. Standardizing clinical interviews risks disaster. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

Mad in America

That was just a lot less salient abroad,” she pointed out in an interview. These often include sleep deprivation, eating bitter food, hard physical labor, and sometimes even physical restraint. When they come to him, he advises their families to let them rest and eat better food. More often than not, this helps them give birth.