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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

Mad in America

” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The study was authored by Judith J.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

Mad in America

In the sense that everything is influenced by politics in one way or another yes, therapy is political. His entire social existence was so saturated with these power dynamics and vested interests that its possible he was blind to the influence they had on his perspective. Is therapy political? Mental health is also political.

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

Mad in America

Nemeroff and Schatzberg declared 17 industry ties each: Dr. Nemeroff has been a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi, Neurocrine Biosciences, Organon, Otsuka, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst.

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

Work Life

Inviting someone from outside the group—whether a trusted mentor, an employee from another team, or an external consultant—to explore potential sources of conflict can be a powerful way to ensure that people share the hidden issues they may be harboring. I’ve seen this countless times in my own experience.

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Book Review — Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most by Bill Berman and George Bradt

Workplace Psychology

Bill Berman & George Bradt (Influence and Impact, p. What Influence and Impact by Bill Berman and George Bradt Is About. people lose their ability to influence others and impact the organization because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities. What is influence?

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

H ow can psychiatry maintain its authority and influence despite its repeated scientific failures and lack of progress—now even acknowledged by key members of the psychiatric establishment and the mainstream media? How can psychiatry retain its authority and influence despite its scientific failures?

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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

The ward round was a time when the consultant showed his (rarely her in those days) colours. My intention was to become a GP, but just before I reached that goal, I was side-lined into postgraduate training to become an A&E consultant. We live in a culture which is heavily influenced by social media and the advertising industry.

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