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The “Madness” of Inpatient Psychiatry

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Those trapped there due to their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are controlled by pharmaceutical Americans and their cultish mindset hailing drugs at the expense of everything else. Of course, psychiatrists rarely say the quiet parts out loud; their status as pharmaceutical Americans could come into jeopardy if they did.

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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. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Yes. Piper: Thank you.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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335 In 2000, they co-authored a report of a depression pill trial in New England Journal of Medicine where the authors had so many ties to drug companies that there wasn’t room for them in the print journal (they took up 1067 words). Whether drugs are legal or illegal, it is unhealthy to perturb brain functions with them.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

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If there were any medical basis to this condition at all there would be no need for self-reporting and we would simply run some tests that indicate whether a body is physiologically non-normal. Of course parents will glow when viewing their child’s latest report card. This constitutes science? This is medicine? What are its benefits?

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

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Today I was contacted by my former manager/supervisor requesting that I help him out with data gathering/location for a monthly report. Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. Should I help? Manager is blocking my internal transfer.

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

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In 2021, New York Times reporter Benedict Carey, after covering psychiatry for twenty years, concluded that psychiatry had done “little to improve the lives of the millions of people living with persistent mental distress. In 2023, Time reported , “About one in eight U.S. Suicide rates have risen by about 30% since 2000.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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” Although sexual dysfunction is labeled as a “side effect”, numerous patients report issues far persisting withdrawal. That rate has been increasing rapidly: “From 2006 to 2014, the number of serious ADEs reported to the FDA increased 2-fold… A previously published study… found that from 1998 to 2005, there was a 2.6-fold