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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

First, I found a supervising psychiatrist with tapering experience, which is vanishingly rare in Australia. This is not to let the pharmaceutical companies, the government drug-approving bodies, and the doctors who write the scripts without thinking off the hook. There are no studies, not yet. I have no illusions about the road ahead.

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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

The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology. Regarding treatments, you have yourself written that psycho-pharmaceuticals have been found to be a lot less effective and have severe adverse effects.

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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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