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Credentials and money are not antidotes to the lingering effects of childhood maltreatment.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Soon psychopathology replaced ethnicity as the critical demographic determinant.
Mark Leyner • My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
As a prime example and but one of numerous initiatives undertaken in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has been conducting carefully designed and administered studies showing remarkable benefits and/or great promise treating su
... See moreJulie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
CHAPTER 9 Mental Health Is Brain Health
Marc Milstein • The Age-Proof Brain
In 1975, the Rockefeller Commission investigating the CIA disclosed that the agency had also been running LSD experiments in Maryland, at Fort Detrick, as part of a mind-control project called MK-Ultra. (An internal memo the commission released concisely set forth the agency’s objective: “Can we get control of an individual to the point where he wi
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
What if taking psychotropic drugs is causing us to lose some essential aspect of our humanity?
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
She was unreachable, trapped on that vicious merry-go-round of mental illness: sickness, bizarre behavior, institutionalization, medication, stability, release, abandonment of medication regimen, sickness.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
Official statistics show an exponential rise in the use of pharmaceuticals, and the aim of psychotherapy is rapidly shifting towards forcing patients to adapt to social norms — you might even say, disciplining them.
Paul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
Olga Kharitidi