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This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone

Author: Editorial 29th August 2022 0 Comments

“Increasingly, anxious and depressed teens are using multiple, powerful psychiatric drugs, many of them untested in adolescents or for use in tandem.” This article by Matt Richtel has been published in the New York Times. It begins: “One morning in the…
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a coherent system

antidepressants, children and adolescents, Matt Richtel, New York Times, pharmaceutical industry, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry, Renae Smith

He Spurred a Revolution in Psychiatry. Then He ‘Disappeared.’

Author: Editorial 6th June 2022 0 Comments

The Mad in America website cites a New York Times‘ article , which begins: “On the second day of the annual convention of the American Psychiatric Association in 1972, something extraordinary happened. While the assembled psychiatrists, mostly white men in dark…
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a coherent system

American Psychiatric Association, history of psychiatry, homosexuality, Mad in America, New York Times, psychiatry

Dr. Drug Rep

Author: Editorial 5th February 2021 0 Comments

This article by Dr. Daniel Carlat reflects on his direct personal experiences working as as a psychiatrist within an American context. Published some years ago in the New York Times, it illustrates the undue power and influence of pharmaceutical companies, particularly…
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collaborative practice

big pharma, Daniel Carlat, drug trials, New York Times, pharmaceutical companies, Psychiatric Drugs, psychiatry

It’s Not Always Depression

Author: Editorial 21st December 2018 0 Comments

This article by Hilary Jacobs Hendel in the New York Times concerns both the diagnosis of depression and something called Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). The article begins: “How can it be that a seemingly depressed person, one who shows clinical…
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emotion-focused care

accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy, AEDP, core emotions, depression, emotions, Hilary Jacobs Hendel, inhibitory emotions, New York Times, psychotherapy

How Suicide Quietly Morphed Into a Public Health Crisis

Author: Editorial 24th August 2018 0 Comments

From an article by Benedict Carey in The New York Times: “The deaths of the designer Kate Spade and the chef Anthony Bourdain, both of whom committed suicide this week, were not simply pop culture tragedies. They were the latest markers of an intractable public health crisis that has been unfolding in slow motion for a generation . Treatment…
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a wellbeing society

antidepressants, anxiety, Benedict Carey, guns, New York Times, public health, suicide, wellbeing

Many People Taking Antidepressants Discover They Cannot Quit

Author: Editorial 11th May 2018 0 Comments

Many people taking antidepressants discover they cannot quit, write Benedict Carey and Robert Gebeloff, reporting for the New York Times : “Victoria Toline would hunch over the kitchen table, steady her hands and draw a bead of liquid from a vial with a…
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collaborative practice

addiction, antidepressant side-effects, antidepressants, Benedict Carey, drug withdrawal symptoms, New York Times, psychiatry, Robert Gebeloff