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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers. It also allows you to create more authority in your area of expertise. A strategy for success.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Mad in America

Once again, a pharmaceutical had altered an essential part of my body. Countless supplements and over 30 different pharmaceuticals, I pretty much tried it all. This is the biggest problem I see with psychiatryit is largely based on outdated models and a lot of pseudoscience. I started freaking out.

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The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals

Mad in America

Psychologists were leading discussions, therapists were guiding treatment, and even insurance companies were funding itreluctantly. The messiness of human suffering was sorted into categories, each with a matching pharmaceutical solution. Insurance companies embraced the new model. It was a triumph of efficiency.

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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. Whitaker: Here’s the problem in psychiatry today.

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Leaving Biological Psychiatry Behind: An Interview With Rodrigo Nardi

Mad in America

I pushed away thoughts like, “What’s the point of giving a drug to solve a quality of life problem?” Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. I have a lot of patients that come to me—especially male—who say, they have a problem with anger. You don’t serve the CEO.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

Success

Through the four businesses she has founded, which span strategic services, design, construction and events, Burgess helps solve problems for good and create spaces and events that make you feel happy. She is a problem solver, a solution maven, and an avid investor in emerging brands and creator of her own CPG brands. .

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

Thats not a leap people often makefrom philosophical psychology to critiques of the pharmaceutical industry and medicalization. She was deeply involved in critical psychiatry and critiques of the pharmaceutical industry. Together, we drafted an open letter laying out the problems with the DSM-5.