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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. Obviously, it’s pretty easy to assail government bureaucracy, but how about industry?

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

If only he could apply himself to his study of history and government he would be well qualified for the job (But who are we kidding? A huge benefit for students, parents and teachers in having Adderall and Ritalin-like drugs prescribed to students is the accompanying legal document: the 504 plan. What are its benefits?

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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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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

Doctors became hypnotized by the appearance of “science”, even if the literature they consulted was essentially pharmaceutical advertising. Such optimism would be disappointed by dwindling pharmaceutical progress in the later half of the century. When medications did cause harm, the doctors were completely blind to it.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

Much as the court-watching movement shines a light on the unjust workings of the criminal-legal system , Shield activists show up to virtual hearings like Russell’s as witnesses to the injustices of the civil commitment system. Why does a religious organization have legal rights over a man’s life and body in a supposedly secular state?”

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

They represent catastrophic failures of governance. From this standpoint then, the systemic and institutional failures of mental health care are just reflections of a larger catastrophic failure of vision and governance that touches almost every aspect of modern life. We have become a sick society, and the signs are all around us.

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Why Japan wants its citizens to try a 4-day workweek

Work Life

The Japanese government first expressed support for a shorter working week in 2021, after lawmakers endorsed the idea. Although 85% of employers report giving their workers two days off a week and there are legal restrictions on overtime hours, which are negotiated with labor unions and detailed in contracts. Fast Retailing Co.,