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

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My therapy training has played a part; I am now able to step into other peoples frames of reference. While I trained to become a therapist, I paid my bills by working as a debt advisor for the debt charity StepChange. Nowadays I find it most helpful to look at things in terms of power dynamics and vested interests. Davies, 2013, p.30)

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Risks of Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Veterans

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While the researcher had just completed his academic training to become a psychiatrist, he received no education at all on the withdrawal issues facing him, as well as more than 1 in 6 patients prescribed antidepressants. The side effects can be lifelong and sometimes fatal.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, most pediatricians were opposed to breastfeeding and the accepted thinking at the time was that the baby was ready at six weeks to begin taking solid foods! The answer to this question is outside of the physicians training and expertise. One should ask “Why does this patient have a sleep problem?

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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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Cosgrove: I’m a clinical psychologist by training. When medical historians say, “This particular person got an appreciable amount of money from a pharmaceutical company, in this case, Merck and Parke-Davis,” we want to know how much money it is. Brian Piper: Thrilled to be here. He was also a major user for an extended period.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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However, Miss Brown will discover that John boy buys his lunch from the cafeteria, and since she’s not allowed to withhold food from him, he goes to the cafeteria to buy his lunch. He returns “promptly” thirty-five minutes later and explains that “the line was long” or that “they ran out of food and had to make more.”

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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.

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What I’ve Learned about Tapering Psychiatric Drugs—A Holistic Therapist’s Perspective

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A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. BRAIN Lowering inflammation in the brain by eliminating inflammatory foods, such as gluten, dairy, sugar, and alcohol. I saw data being thrown out that should have been reported.

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