Vivek Datta, MD, MPH, Author at Mad In America

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The Psychopathology of American Life: A British physician explores how the concept of mental disorder has vastly expanded over the past century, reporting from the front lines of American psychiatry.

Feeling Good with Narcotics Now “Evidence” of Opioid Deficiency: The Chemical Imbalance Theory of...

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Why Screening Everyone for Depression is a Terrible Idea

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Psychiatry and the Problem of the Medical Model – Part 1

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When Homosexuality Came Out (of the DSM)

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Science and Pseudoscience in Psychiatric Training: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn and What Psychiatrists Should...

Vivek Datta, MD, MPH - November 20, 2014 24

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From Blaming the Patient to Blaming the Brain

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Withdrawing From Psychiatric Drugs: What Psychiatrists Don’t Learn

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Does DSM-5 Matter? Yes; but not for Psychiatrists

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The Problem with PTSD

Vivek Datta, MD, MPH - January 17, 2013 6

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The Denial of Pain and Mortality: Or, the Art of Self-Prescribing and the Philosopher’s...

Vivek Datta, MD, MPH - December 3, 2012 10

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Suckling Pigs, Stray Dogs, and Psychiatric Diagnoses

Vivek Datta, MD, MPH - November 29, 2012 13

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Chemical Imbalances and Other Black Unicorns

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The Psychopathology of American Life

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Vivek Datta – Short Bio

June 19, 2012