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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The report, “ Global Hiring Activity Trends & Signals – Q3 2023 ,” claims that sectors such as construction, insurance, banking & payments, technology and communications, and pharmaceuticals posted significant hybrid job roles during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Was it related to medical insurance or government programs? Moore: The last couple of questions are related to the pharmaceutical industry. But the U.K.

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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. It is, though, largely funded by the government.

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

Mad in America

They were with MindFreedom International’s (MFI) Shield program , describing itself as “a volunteer-driven mutual aid network through which we organize public campaigns to advocate for the rights of individuals who are being subjected to psychiatric intervention without consent.” the origin of the majority of Shield requests.

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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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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

The main current perpetrators of these reprehensible attitudes and practices are frequently named as the UK Critical Psychiatry Network, and specifically Joanna Moncrieff; James Davies; Sami Timimi; Lucy Johnstone; Peter Kinderman; and Mad in America, ‘a popular online publication closely aligned with critical psychiatry leaders ’.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.