Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

But only few understand that these statements do not prove a strong genetic influence. Interim conclusion: The GWAS that are so often praised today do not confirm any major influence of genes, in particular no cause-and-effect relationship, and are dependent on the inclusion of other factors.

Influencing

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? Taylors book traces these transformations in selfhood in a way that is both rigorous and breathtaking in scope. Reading it was a profoundly humbling and eye-opening experience.

Government

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2025

What were the influences on you personally, but also nationally and culturally, that led you to take this path that’s going to eventually form Open Dialogue in the 1990s? Whitaker: Can you speak about another influence in terms of developing dialogic approaches, Tom Anderson from Norway?

Training

Mad in America

JUNE 19, 2025

House Bill 25-1063 , approved in April 2025, represents one such effort, revealing the intersection of commercial interests, intellectual property concerns, and the pharmaceutical model’s influence on psychedelic policy.

Healthcare

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.

Interviewing

Mad in America

MARCH 5, 2025

Fee: My gut feeling is Big Pharma and its influence over the entire medical profession. I dont know this for a fact, but Id bet a lot of money goes into The New York Times from pharmaceutical advertising. Its too big of an influence. So just since Richard died, the numbers have skyrocketed. Doctors arent in charge anymore.

Insurance

Mad in America

JUNE 11, 2025

I had no clue how much these drugs were influencing everything I believed and felt, beyond just keeping me not depressed — which they never really did. I made the decision that I would rather feel withdrawal for the rest of my life than give one more cent to the pharmaceutical industry on this topic.

Coaching

Mad in America

AUGUST 9, 2025

I was just a copywriter working in pharmaceutical advertising. The rise of atypical antipsychotics was a business and marketing phenomenon—driven in part by a wave of pharmaceutical mergers in the 1990s. I didn’t set out to shape the field of psychiatry. The agency was in Midtown Manhattan. The client was Johnson & Johnson.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JULY 31, 2025

But this framework ignores that what we codify as psychopathology may be a rather normative and sane response to adversity, and that the factors influencing those responses are systemically/externally (rather than individually/internally) caused. economic exploitation or other forms of injustice).

Healthcare

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2025

1 The Cochrane authors had not listed any conflicts in relation to drug firms, but they did not tell their readers that the studies they included, 37 placebo-controlled trials (12,226 participants), were heavily influenced by drug firms. Selective publication of antidepressant trials and its influence on apparent efficacy.

Reporting

Office Snapshots

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The design is influenced by the natural surroundings on which the 56,000 square foot building sits in Marina Del Rey. Design : Worksmart Design Design Team : Mandy Adams, Fiona Chan Photography : RJ Guillermo The post Armata Pharmaceuticals Offices – Marina Del Rey appeared first on Office Snapshots.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The study was authored by Judith J.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

In the sense that everything is influenced by politics in one way or another yes, therapy is political. His entire social existence was so saturated with these power dynamics and vested interests that its possible he was blind to the influence they had on his perspective. Is therapy political? Mental health is also political.

Controlling

Mad in America

APRIL 8, 2024

They looked at the largest, most influential clinical trials of antidepressants and found that almost half were so biased that they could be considered “seeding trials”—or studies that provide marketing materials for the pharmaceutical industry, not valid scientific data. Large trials are rare in the field of antidepressant research.

Pharmaceutical

Insperity

AUGUST 9, 2018

Or maybe you’d like to expand your influence with a broader audience. Venture capital funds are seeing increased success in pharmaceutical, health care and technology company startup labs across the country, as they partner with various providers to share liabilities and costs while creating more value in the mutually supported businesses.

Sales

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Turner has used FDA data to illuminate the influence of publication bias and lack of efficacy of other drugs as well, including antidepressants and esketamine. Unpublished trials of alprazolam XR and their influence on its apparent efficacy for panic disorder. It was published in Psychological Medicine. Y., & Turner, E.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. It’s continuing this idea that there’s something wrong in you that needs an external influence to correct, isn’t it? How about the kids?

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

MARCH 20, 2024

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

Interviewing

Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Through the 1990s, I was dismayed that the influence of pharmaceutical marketing had seemed to suppress that idea, as polypharmacy and use of higher doses of drugs became part of accepted practice. This might be due to the work Moncrieff and others have already done in influencing practice in the UK.

Pharmaceutical

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Ignition Schools list honors the top academic institutions that play an enormous role in shaping the businesses that influence society. Welcome to the first-ever edition of Ignition Schools, a collaboration between Fast Company and our sibling publication, Inc. respectively—are also the focus of Ignition Schools.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

This connection between mental health and the use of battlefield and warfare metaphors has meaningful implications for how people perceive and cope with mental health conditions, influencing how care goals are set and treatment plans are designed. In this ‘garden’ model, mental health is seen as a collective, dynamic cultivation process.

Healthcare

Workplace Psychology

AUGUST 17, 2021

Bill Berman & George Bradt (Influence and Impact, p. What Influence and Impact by Bill Berman and George Bradt Is About. people lose their ability to influence others and impact the organization because they are not focused on the most essential, mission-critical business and cultural priorities. What is influence?

Influencing

Work Life

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Relying solely on a narrow set of approaches can limit the breadth and depth of your influence and hinder the full potential of your organization. In Tony’s work as a leadership coach, he worked with a pharmaceutical CEO who realized that her company’s long-term vision had become blurred.

Leadership

Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Pharmaceutical companies, exerting their influence on academic psychiatry through lucrative honoraria and advisory board payments, have clearly played a role in how antidepressant risks have been presented. This notable gap has raised some suspicion that the necessary research has not merely been overlooked but deliberately avoided.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

Clearly, this influences whether they are regarded as ‘ill’ or as distressed, whether they might be considered dangerous, incapable, threatening and so on. There are many voices articulating the need for politicians and others with influence to act against growing levels of material inequality, but these tend to fall on deaf ears.

Pharmaceutical

Work Life

AUGUST 29, 2024

I worked with one global pharmaceutical client that was struggling to adapt to rapid growth as the demand for a blockbuster drug skyrocketed. These unspoken yet powerful influencers shape our expectations of others, drive important decisions , and dictate whether or not we are truly available to listen to differing points of view.

Problem-Solving

Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Capitalist society is not based on happiness but on productivity, and psychiatry is part of this system, not least because of the pharmaceutical companies’ great influence over research. You could call it corruption if you were of the zealous sort.

Pharmaceutical

McKensey

JULY 16, 2025

Two segments, energy and manufacturing, account for much of the rising demand as companies scramble to build everything from liquefied-natural-gas facilities and pharmaceutical plants to data centers and chip fabs. Exercise real decision influence.

Manufacturing

Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

Prior to the days of pharmaceutical companies, there was no such thing as “depression”. He believed that people’s strange behaviours were not mental illnesses. They represented “problems in living”. Unfortunately, not many “experts” and other psychiatrists took him seriously.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But there are a lot of factors I think that influenced that. Moore: And of course, it was an open door then for the pharmaceutical industry, wasn’t it, with their massive marketing dollars. And I think she’s right that medical psychiatry and the pharmaceutical companies needed a vision like that.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

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”.

Consulting

Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

Mark had the grit and determination to submit our paper to a very high-ranking, high-influence journal. But I do think there needs to be a balance between the massive amount of promotion that there is funded by pharmaceutical companies to start these medications, and what limited information there is on how to stop the medication.

Interviewing

Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

I believe all of the existing health entities—providers, health insurance companies, the FDA, the pharmaceutical industry, and managed care—cannot and will not make needed changes to improve the quality of healthcare and to lower the cost as well. How do we get more science rather than propaganda to shape current healthcare delivery?

Healthcare

Vantage Circle

MARCH 21, 2020

I once worked at an organization, and my department worked on connecting pharmaceutical companies with government officials. personal life issues that influence their level of commitment. Here’s the holy trinity of company management mistakes that force employees to leave. You Spread Them Thin. the experience that they can apply.

Pharmaceutical

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Critical factors such as lifestyle habits and environmental influences, known as Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) , often play a more substantial role. SDOH are  nonmedical factors that influence health outcomes. What happens at work influences life; what happens in life shows up at work.

Healthcare

Ask a Manager

MARCH 27, 2017

It was a healthcare-related nonprofit, and the articles indicated that the organization was funded and heavily influenced by corporate pharmaceutical companies despite portraying itself as an advocate for patients. I have done a Google search recently and have uncovered no more investigative articles along the same lines.

Computer

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? Evolutionary geneticist R.C.

Technology