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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. She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform.

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How to manage conflict on your team when you’ve been avoiding it forever

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I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. The HR team, skeptical about changing processes that had worked for decades, began to butt heads with legal, who preferred new processes and increasingly looked down on HR as less business savvy.

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Psychiatry: Medical Science of Mind or Moral Ideology?

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In hindsight, this bait-and-switch is understandable, given the Scientific Revolutions influences on psychiatry in its oxymoronic striving to be a specialty that objectively targeted subjective mental suffering. While admittedly not mind in themselves, these proxies were presented for all intents and purposes as if they were.

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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. 10:20 He calls this “scientism”.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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

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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? Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

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Everybody knows [in medicine], of the influence of pharma, on the training, on the textbooks, on the overall paradigm of psychiatry. Can you talk more about what it’s like to be a psychiatric resident how that is influencing the situation we find ourselves in today? I think this is part of the answer. You serve the patient.