Mad in America

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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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Mad in America

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For the pharmaceutical industry, the bigger and wider those diseases, the more people who can be diagnosed, and the bigger your markets are. The marketing of medical conditions has become a key plank of pharmaceutical industry marketing. Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products.

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Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

Although there was already a very strong biological current in psychiatry, at that time there was still the strong influence of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and social psychiatry. The pharmaceutical industry wanted to put a line between benzodiazepines and their new range of drugs. They marketed this new range of drugs as SSRIs.

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Mad in America

JUNE 15, 2024

His independent research into psychiatric drug harm and pharmaceutical industry corruption would eventually lead him to Mad in America, where he launched the Veterans’ & Military Families Initiative in 2019. Pharmaceutical influence over government has allowed this to go on as long as it has.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Jon Jureidini was doing research into patient experiences of antidepressant withdrawal with a view to making submissions to government. In the prevailing Australian Government view, withdrawal symptoms affect a small minority and probably represents relapse to the original condition. I contacted him, and he graciously took me on.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2015, Whitaker and Lisa Cosgrove published Psychiatry Under the Influence , 599 a book that arose from their time as fellows at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, in a lab devoted to studying institutional corruption. 119:24 Whitaker also mentioned the MTA trial ( see Chapter 9, Part Two ).

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They represent catastrophic failures of governance. From this standpoint then, the systemic and institutional failures of mental health care are just reflections of a larger catastrophic failure of vision and governance that touches almost every aspect of modern life. We have become a sick society, and the signs are all around us.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

Instead, the main benefit would be to the neurodiversity movement itself, which would gain credibility, strength and influence by allying itself with these groups. Rather like its perspective on diagnosis, the neurodiversity perspective on disability is confused and confusing. We explore this issue further in our final section.

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Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

So, even if they were not fans of Hitler, they grew up in this time and, as I felt, they were not very reflective about the influence of that terrible Zeitgeist on the development of their personalities. Together we wrote an informational brochure about neuroleptics free from the commercial interests of the pharmaceutical industry.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 2, 2023

135 One should never start psychiatric drug treatment without having a tapering plan, but no one taught doctors how to stop the drugs, whereas they have learned from their professors and the pharmaceutical industry when to start them and always to blame the disease for untoward symptoms, ignoring the troubles they have caused.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

According to Dhar, this biomedical influence is dangerous not only because it limits possibilities for healing, as it would in any region, but also because it lacks relevance to South Asians in particular. I was looking at the global mental health movement coming in and erasing these diverse ways of being human, Dhar explains.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This person inspires us, influences us, informs us, guides us. They are both influenced by John C. Bill’s weekly show features the biggest influencers, innovators and success stories in America. Veronica Figueroa is an award-winning real estate influencer and keynote speaker. Wouldn’t it be nice to know more of them?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

With the explosion of more and more drugs in cabinets across the country, more and more children are dying—but still, pharmaceutical companies push their products, leading to yet more drugs and yet more deaths. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, in our village community the pain of losing a single child was felt by all.

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Workplace Insight

JULY 5, 2024

They work with governments, health departments, and global organizations, conducting studies, managing programs, and responding to outbreaks. They advocate for change, influencing health policy locally and globally, and translate research into practical policies that improve health outcomes for populations worldwide.

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Success

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At SUCCESS magazine, we are proud to celebrate these women through our annual Women of Influence awards campaign, recognizing trailblazing women who are not only shaping the present but are also laying the groundwork for future difference-makers to thrive. raised a record $64.4 billion in venture capital funding in 2021.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 25, 2025

High levels of childhood adversity, known to affect mental and physical health across the lifespan, are influenced by and contribute to problems such as severe violent crime, poverty, and lack of access to education. Where treatment is available, pharmaceutical interventions are often all thats on offer.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 4, 2025

In our 2015 book Psychiatry Under the Influence , Lisa Cosgrove and I wrote about the STAR*D scandal in depth, as it served as an example of the institutional corruption in psychiatry due to pharmaceutical interests and psychiatrys own guild interests. This was the governing public narrative when the STAR*D trial was conducted.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

And this is complemented by well-funded public advertising and promotional campaignsoften with overt government support. Similar trends can be found in many western countries where similar political and business influences, including huge advertising and promotional budgets from pharmaceutical companies, are in place.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Many factors influence the number of suicides, e.g. unemployment. Suicides in the United States From 1999 onwards, government agencies at all levelsfederal, state, and locallaunched substantial suicide prevention efforts where people with depression are advised to take depression pills. This is the case for the United States.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2025

The American Psychiatric Association (APA), the guild of American psychiatrists, is a key member of establishment psychiatry, and in the APAs Commentary on Ethics in Practice (2015), in the section Relations with the Pharmaceutical and Other Industries , it states: Psychiatrists may interact with industry in many ways, including.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

Big Pharma lobbies our politicians (more than any other industry), so that our government will help it. Drug Industry Fees Fuel Concern Over Influence The New York Times, Sep 15, 2022. This advertising slogan has been ingrained in our culture ever since. It allowed direct-to-consumer advertising here 9. Jewett, C F.D.A.s

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2025

Another key influence on my thinking was Jack Martin. And could you say a bit about which authors or theorists have influenced your thinking on this topic? These policies have very real, concrete effectslike the dismantling of welfare programs and the shifting of risk from governments to individuals. I disagree.

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