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The Editorial Demise of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics Is Bad News For Us All

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The journal continued to be in good hands, and thus one of the few journals that was receptive to research findings that belied the narrative of therapeutic progress that the psychiatric guild and pharmaceutical companies have been promoting for decades. He noted too the reluctance of the field to consider this possibility.

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Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics: End of an Era for Independent Journals? An Interview With Giovanni Fava

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Before we begin, I’d like to take a few moments and explain the context of this interview. Third, his journal told of the corrupting influence of pharmaceutical money on the creation of psychiatric diagnoses and drug trials. Listen to the audio of the interview here. W elcome to Mad In America Radio.

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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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” This interview was conducted by email. He also sent me to colleagues who had special knowledge of specific areas such as having a control group who did not have the rehab program, as well as scales and schedules to use in interviews, and which statistics to use. We began interviewing in 1980. Appointments were made.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

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Listen to the audio of the interview here. Then, probably the same year it’s picked up by Eli Lilly, the makers of Prozac, and other pharmaceutical companies who come along with their SSRIs, and they breathe new life into it and recruit this idea, which has already been disproven, to market antidepressants.

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“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian Dex Carrington

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Listen to the audio of the interview here. I got into this headspace where I was like, I will not give the pharmaceutical industry one more dollar after what they did to me. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Brooke Siem: Thanks for being here. Who is Dex Carrington, as opposed to Jørgen? It kept me alive.

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The Garden of the Mind: Fictions Weeded Out by Psychiatry

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A seasoned psychiatrist interviewed me, a woman with short, dark, puffy hair and a stern demeanor. She interviewed my mother, striving to understand my history. With samples from a pharmaceutical company eager to gain a new client, Dr. Y also prescribed a benzodiazepine to improve sleep and ease symptoms.

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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

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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. The medical field has become complacent, prioritizing pharmaceutical profits, insurance companies agendas, and established narratives over patients well-being.