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Tolstoy’s Hermit: Jay Schulkin

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Jay Shulkin, a neuroscientist and philosopher of prodigious curiosity and energy, has died at age 70 of hepatic cancer.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 7: Psychosis (Part One)

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Psychosis pills were hailed as a great advance, but this was because they kept the patients docile and quiet, which was very popular with the staff in psychiatric wards.

Disability as a Creative Practice

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I wanted to explore how time and sequence work when memory is disrupted, in my case due to traumatic brain injury. I needed to document and reclaim my own sensorium.
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Compassion and Understanding Versus Drugs and Disease: Where Does Humanistic Psychology Stand Now?

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Authors with lived experience of extreme states present a humanistic contrast to psychiatry.

25 Years Later: Honoring a Stress Breakdown

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This was no illness. And I knew my biochemistry was not the primary issue. I chose to call it a severe stress breakdown.
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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 6: Psychiatric Drug Trials Are Not Reliable

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In this blog, Gøtzsche discusses the ways in which drug trials are biased, including breaking of the double-blind and industry manipulation.

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Psychology & The Other Conference Oct. 6-8 at Boston College seeks submissions. View details here. Due March 17, 2023.

PharmedOut’s Making Healthy People Sick: Invented Diseases and Overtreatment June 15-16 at Georgetown University seeks submissions. View details here. Due April 20, 2023.

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