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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

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It doesnt seem beyond the realm of possibility that pharmaceutical companies would deliberately disrupt the conversation in similar ways, and indeed James Davies in his book Sedated gives evidenced examples of them selectively publishing research data on the efficacy of their drugs (Davies, 2022). Davies, 2013, p.30) Davies, 2013, p.30)

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require warnings for persistent sexual dysfunction, for example, and today the agency is attempting to defend itself from a lawsuit by the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, which claims that it failed to respond to a 2018 petition to do so.

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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava

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Third, his journal told of the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical money on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses and drug trials. Whitaker: There are those two funding sources, open access where people have to pay, or journals where they’re basically funded by pharmaceutical advertisements. Fava: Right, and the libraries.

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

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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. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. He was also a major user for an extended period.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most pediatricians were opposed to breastfeeding and the accepted thinking at the time was that the baby was ready at six weeks to begin taking solid foods!

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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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.”