The country is locked in a system of punitive psychiatry.
Tag: Psychiatry and Psychiatrists
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Doctors Gave Her Antipsychotics. She Decided to Live With Her Voices.
A new movement wants to shift mainstream thinking away from medication and toward greater acceptance.
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Pediatricians Hold the Front Lines of a Mental Health Crisis
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.
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Feeling Ambivalent About Motherhood Is Normal
After years of engaging with parenthood from a distance, it’s time for a psychiatrist specializing in women’s mental health to take her own advice.