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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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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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In addition to her academic career as a professor of psychiatry, Harding has worked with 30 states and nearly two dozen countries to redesign their systems of care so they better promote the long-term recovery that her longitudinal study revealed was possible. ” This interview was conducted by email.

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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. One is that it seems that the disease model of care that was being promoted, at least in the United States, starting in the 1980s and 1990s lacks any philosophical conception of what it means to be human and sense of our natural range of emotions.

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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

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Such criticism is either ignored by most of establishment psychiatry or it is attacked, often viciously so, especially from establishment psychiatrists who promote themselves as being open to criticism. psychiatrists, which promotes psychiatry as a legitimate branch of medicine. Corruption by pharmaceutical companies.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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In this interview, he explores the philosophical foundations of psychology, the psychological costs of neoliberalism, and why developing a critical psychology of education and mental health is more urgent than ever. Listen to the audio of the interview here. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Author Talks: Doing the heavy lifting

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Skip to main content Author Talks: Doing the heavy lifting July 17, 2025 | Interview A Wall Street Journal journalist turned bodybuilder shares how building strength helped her rebuild her life—physically, emotionally, and mentally. Skinny has a long history in marketing, in pharmaceuticals. Yet there is still a long way to go.

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The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz

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I n this interview for MIA Radio, Brooke Siem speaks with David Taylor and Mark Horowitz about their publication of the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines, which is of particular note since the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines is a leading text in medicine worldwide. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Who’s Maudsley?