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

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It doesnt seem beyond the realm of possibility that pharmaceutical companies would deliberately disrupt the conversation in similar ways, and indeed James Davies in his book Sedated gives evidenced examples of them selectively publishing research data on the efficacy of their drugs (Davies, 2022). Davies, 2013, p.30) & Trans.),

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. Because there is an anti-psychiatry movement saying we function more as a means of social control than as medical doctors.” Why is it threatened?

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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A finding derived from double-blind randomized control trials (RCTs), the so called ‘gold standard’ for medical research. Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

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By the 1990speople called it the “Decade of the Brain”the chemical imbalance idea ( propagated by pharmaceutical industry TV ads ) had grabbed everyone’s attention. This shift moves control away from the individual. People change from active participants in healing to passive receivers of expert help.

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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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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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In 1990 she co-founded the Critical Psychiatry Network , which today has about 400 psychiatrist members, about two-thirds of whom are in the United Kingdom. From my perspective, the Critical Psychiatry Network has been at the forefront of making a broad critique of the disease model of care. They had a hard time staying in the system.

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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.” the origin of the majority of Shield requests.

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