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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. The individual cannot directly control when they can escape and dare not step out of line in this process.

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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. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. He was also a major user for an extended period.

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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

Work Life

A [severance package] is about reputational management and damage control.” 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). I encourage clients to simply ask for more time.”

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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. Make forced treatment unlawful.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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Your student is failing for reasons that are outside of anyone’s control. 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.

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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.

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

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In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex. Evolutionary geneticist R.C.