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

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I spent a long time in OCD therapy and learned a lot about the field. 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.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

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His passion for teaching and learning has led to the creation of the True Psychiatry Network and the development of a mentoring program designed to address the most frequent challenges related to psychiatric training. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. I was still blind.

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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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Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. A former Research Fellow at the Edmond J. He wanted his friends to use this drug, he wanted his family members to use this drug. Cosgrove: Yes.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Psychedelics: While still controversial due to a welter of legal, cultural, and safety concerns, it now seems unavoidable that psychedelics will be part of the mental health care of the future. Even as legalization proceeds apace across the country, ayahuasca circles and similar events can already be found in many communities.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

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Dogen further learned from former colleagues that they got their deferred cash and stock compensations upon exit. Ultimately, companies aren’t legally required to give employees severance packages ( except for through the WARN Act , which may require companies with 100-plus full-time workers to pay two months’ severance).

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

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Industry knew nothing but had an incentive to learn fast. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. In this way, we put everyone else who is injured by the drug in a state of legal jeopardy because companies can claim nothing like happened in our studies – it’s your anecdote against our evidence.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.