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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

Mad in America

The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.

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

Mad in America

Information produced by professional bodies and charitable groups also promotes this view and it is reported by the media as if it were established fact. Davies describes a comprehensive UK government report on the influence of the pharmaceutical industry the House of Commons Health Select Committee Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

Acknowledging these SDOH is essential for promoting health equity—ensuring all individuals have complete access to opportunities that enable them to lead healthy lives. Economic Stability: Financial resources available to an individual, income, cost of living, poverty, food security, and housing stability.

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

Ask a Manager

I manage about 15 events every 12 weeks (each event being 3-4 days long) and am in charge of every aspect of the events (on-site logistics, travel, venue accommodations, food and events, agenda and educational sessions, sponsors, speakers…the list goes on). You can’t stay in the job forever waiting for the right time to leave.

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

Mad in America

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.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

Mad in America

You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. There is this growing grassroots resistance.

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The Anatomy of Anxiety: An Interview With Ellen Vora

Mad in America

This isn’t an anxiety to pathologize or suppress, nor is it something we can avoid by just eating gluten-free food or avoiding caffeine. Our hormones, our gut health, micronutrient deficiencies, the degree to which we have inflammatory molecules coursing through our bloodstream—there’s an enormous influence from food.