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A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

Mad in America

Psychiatry, along with the pharmaceutical industry, have been ostensibly busy looking for causes of mental distress but, unfortunately, they are looking in the wrong place. Szasz’s widely read book characterized psychiatry as an instrument of social control whose main function was to eliminate social deviance and promote compliance.

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A.Menarini Offices – Bangkok

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Menarini, Italy’s first pharmaceutical and healthcare company and currently ranked fifth in Thailand has selected One Bangkok as the site for its new office. Enclosed rooms and meeting spaces are positioned along the inner walls, maximizing access to natural daylight for the main work areas and promoting energy efficiency.

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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

It is a reflection of deep systemic issuessocial pressure, medical hierarchy, lack of education around mental healththat collectively push people into silent suffering and pharmaceutical dependence. But the real danger lies in mistaking symptom suppression for recovery, and in promoting these drugs as long-term solutions.

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

Mad in America

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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How to make valuable values

People Business Psychology

A pharmaceutical company might state that “promoting health” is one of their key values, and a cinema or theatre chain might espouse the value of entertainment and leisure. The assumption is that customers and other stakeholders will believe the stated values and place more trust in it.

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In Brain Chemistry We Trust—The Gospel According to Pharma

Mad in America

Depression was sold to us as a simple problem of serotonin insufficiency, a convenient narrative that made drug companies like Eli Lilly, Forest Pharmaceuticals, and Pfizer very rich. As a former pharmaceutical advertising writer, I not only witnessed the explosive growth in antidepressant drugs, I contributed to it.

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When Narratives Clash: Unshrunk and The Cognitive Dissonance of the NY Times

Mad in America

Together, psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry successfully promoted this narrative to the public, leading to a great expansion of the psychiatric enterprise. There was a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed, including the diagnosing of children, and a dramatic increase in the prescribing of psychiatric drugs.