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

Mad in America

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

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Psychiatric survivor and Shield volunteer Andrea Barnes told Mad in America that she was horrified to learn that Catholic Charities was heavily implicated in Russell’s case. “To Somatics LLC marked a watershed moment for advocates who have fought for decades for ECT device manufacturer accountability.

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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. You can learn more about Russell and his book on his website at RussellBishop.com.

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

Mad in America

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.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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Adjusted Community Rating and Its Role in Health Care Costs

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Medical device sales tax – this tax on the sale of certain taxable medical devices will indirectly increase health insurance costs as manufacturers raise prices to cover the tax. Pharmaceutical manufacturer excise tax – annual fee on entities engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing branded prescription drugs.

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