Thomas Insel – A New Vision for Mental Health

Some interesting quotations (Part 7)

Author: Editorial 1st December 2022 0 Comments

You might find some (or all) of the following quotes interesting: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” Dr. Thomas Insel (former director of the National Institute of Mental Health) * “Sophisticated and superstitious therapists often wonder…
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Key posts

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Twenty Billion Fails to “Move the Needle” on Mental Illness

Author: Editorial 21st February 2022 0 Comments

This report by Dr. Gregg Henriques has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “ Former NIMH head Thomas Insel recently made a remarkable concession . He acknowledged that the biomedical framework he adopted while directing $20 billion dollars in NIMH research funds failed to “move the needle” in improving the lives of the millions…
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a coherent system

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