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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. Of course, psychiatrists rarely say the quiet parts out loud; their status as pharmaceutical Americans could come into jeopardy if they did.

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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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How to manage conflict on your team when you’ve been avoiding it forever

Work Life

I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. The HR team, skeptical about changing processes that had worked for decades, began to butt heads with legal, who preferred new processes and increasingly looked down on HR as less business savvy.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

Work Life

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). Negotiate that going in, so on the way out, it’s one less thing you have to worry about,” Blit says.

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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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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

Yet psychiatry is happy to accept your patronage, the pharmaceutical industry is happy to keep pressing pills, teachers are content to pat themselves on the back for a job well done, and students are elated to receive a performance-enhancing drug. But the benefits go far beyond the chemical advantages of the drug. What are its benefits?

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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. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.