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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

Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. and one of the primary reasons I moved was the constant existential anxiety of not having healthcare despite having health insurance.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

It’s five years of study and in the last year, you work as a psychologist under supervision. Medical school is six years and during the last one to two years, you work as a doctor under supervision. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. You don’t serve the hospital.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. The company’s website says conflicting things about the required level of experience to qualify.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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is it weird to stretch at work, is declining a reference call a red flag, and more

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I once supervised a young person who was fresh out of college and in his first full-time job. I feel very disgruntled and disrespected and it’s hard to be the only one without insurance, salary, or benefits (besides the younger intern). Is declining a reference call a red flag?