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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. You serve the patient.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

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Support groups are a common element, including specialized support group formats like the Hearing Voices Network. 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.

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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.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

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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.

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

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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.” It’s a sham legal process.”

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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Two of the largest organizations representing therapists, the American Psychological Association and the National Association of Social Workers, took legal action. On one side are academics who conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the same approach pharmaceutical companies use to establish whether drugs are effective.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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