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Category Archives: Psychiatry
How do you prevent major mental illness?
“No one has the faintest idea of how to prevent major mental illness,” writes Rael Jean Isaac, coauthor of Madness in the Streets: How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill (2000), in his plug for Insane Consequences: How … Continue reading
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Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill (2017)
Grok summarizes this book by DJ Jaffe: Core Argument: Jaffe argues that the mental health industry has largely abandoned the most seriously mentally ill in favor of promoting “mental wellness” among a much larger, less symptomatic population. This shift, he … Continue reading
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Decoding The News (8-25-24)
01:00 Hate Comments About Gus Walz, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15713114:00 Tucker Carlson – The FULL Interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H1tjQ-RaZU15:30 What’s going on with Ken Brown aka Deep Left Jokl? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aALp15nKpUI26:00 Kamala Harris, LBJ & The Passage Of Power, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15714334:30 How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy: … Continue reading
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Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience
Here are some highlights from this 2013 book by sociologist Liah Greenfeld: * finding oneself bombarded by contradictory cultural messages and overwhelmed with choices is an exceedingly and increasingly common modern experience. It is, therefore, not surprising that the period … Continue reading
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Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of medicine: * During the last half of the century, Charles Darwin’s new evolutionary theory exerted a towering influence over the scientific zeitgeist, including psychiatry.6 Darwin … Continue reading
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Is depression just a chemical imbalance?
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
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The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder
Here are some highlights from this 2007 book: * The book you are about to read is a brilliant tour de force of scholarship and analysis from two of our leading thinkers about psychiatric diagnosis and the nature of mental … Continue reading
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Historicism and Hill Street Blues, Major Depressive Disorder, Afghan Refugees
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NYT: The Psychedelic Revolution Is Coming. Psychiatry May Never Be the Same.
From the New York Times: * Numerous studies have shown that classic psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin are not addictive and cause no organ damage in even high doses. And contrary to popular lore, Ecstasy does not leave holes in … Continue reading
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