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How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
For a generation now, disruptive young Americans who rebel against authority figures have been increasingly diagnosed with mental illnesses and medicated with psychiatric (psychotropic)...
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Are Antidepressants Faith-Based Treatment?
While millions of people swear by Prozac, Zoloft, and other antidepressants, do they work any better than a placebo or no treatment at all?Answering that question would be much easier if: (1) the U.S....
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Paxil Babies: The Dangers of Antidepressants
Today in the United States, 11 percent of women take antidepressants, the use of antidepressants by pregnant women has dramatically increased, and postpartum depression -- rare in those cultures in...
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Exposed: Harvard Shrink Gets Rich Labeling Kids Bipolar
What Dick Cheney is to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, psychiatrist Joseph Biederman is to the explosion of psychiatric medications in American children. Recently, Biederman was nailed by congressional...
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The Science of Happiness: Is It All Bullshit?
A "Daily Show" interview that hit a chord for me was Jon Stewart's conversation with Tal Ben-Shahar, who teaches "positive psychology" at Harvard and has written a self-help book. Early in the...
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Has Big Pharma Corruption Suppressed Effective Treatment Options?
American psychiatry has been rocked by Congress. Congressional investigators first exposed the financial relationships between high-profile psychiatrists and drug companies. "But now the profession...
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Does It Make Sense to Treat Depression with Drugs?
Both research and experience have long informed mental health professionals of a strong link between depression and relationship dissatisfaction. So why is psychiatry losing that awareness? One major...
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Has American Society Gone Insane?
For many Americans who gain their information solely from television, all critics of psychiatry are Scientologists, exemplified by Tom Cruise spewing at Matt Lauer, "You don't know the history of...
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Renowned Psychiatrists on Drug Company Payrolls
National Public Radio announced on November 21, 2008 that it had fired psychiatrist Frederick Goodwin and would be terminating his program "The Infinite Mind." Goodwin was released after NPR learned...
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What's It Going to Take to Lock Up Drug Company Execs?
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through." - Jonathan SwiftAfter reading "The Neurontin Legacy -- Marketing through Misinformation and Manipulation"...
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Psychiatry's 'Shock Doctrine': Are We Really OK With Electroshocking Toddlers?
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. -- C.S. LewisPsychiatry's "shock doctrine" is quite literally electroshock, and its latest...
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Army Suicides in January Outnumbered Combat Deaths
The U.S. Army recently reported that for the month of January in 2009, the number of soldiers who committed suicide surpassed the number of soldiers who were killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan....
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The Case for Giving Eli Lilly the Corporate Death Penalty
Eli Lilly & Company's rap sheet as a public menace is so long that for Lilly watchers to overcome the "banality-of-Lilly-sleaziness" phenomenon, the drug company must break some type of record...
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Big Pharma Bribes Doctors to Hook Your Kids on Drugs
"The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike."–Ralph Waldo EmersonThe wave of evil washes not only the financial-industrial complex, the military-industrial complex, the energy-industrial...
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Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the...
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?Do some...
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Are Progressives Depressed or Too Privileged to Produce Social Change? Or Are...
A few weeks ago Bruce Levine wrote aprovocative article titled "Are Americans a Broken People? Why We've Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression." Levine suggested that many progressives...
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Are Americans Too Broken by Corporate Power to Resist?
Editor's Note:The following is the transcript of a recent interview with Bruce E. Levine by OpEd News' Joan Brunwasser. Levine is a clinical psychologist and author ofSurviving America’s Depression...
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Drugged Warriors: Sharp Rise in U.S. Military Psychiatric Drug Use and Suicide
One in six service members is now taking at least one psychiatric drug, according to theNavy Times, with many soldiers taking “drug cocktail” combinations. Soldiers and military health care providers...
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Are Prozac and Other Psychiatric Drugs Causing the Astonishing Rise of Mental...
In 1987, prior to Prozac hitting the market and the current ubiquitous use of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by...
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American Soldiers Brainwashed with "Positive Thinking"
While U.S. military psychiatrists are prescribing increasing amounts of chill pills, America’s psychologists are teaching soldiers how to think more positively about their tours in Afghanistan, Iraq,...
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