December 7, 2020
By Sami Timimi
Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America’s Parent Resources section will publish selected chapters of Sami Tamimi’s new book, Insane Medicine
. Dr. Timimi is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry at the UK’s Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. His past works include the books Naughty Boys: Anti-Social Behaviour, ADHD and the Role of Culture,
and A Straight Talking Introduction to Children’s Mental Health Problems, among others.
Following is Chapter 5, Part 1. All chapters will be archived here.
When I was training to be a child psychiatrist in the early to mid-1990s in the UK, childhood depression was considered to be rare, related to adversity, and generally unresponsive to pharmaceutical treatment. Sure, children got sad, became irritable, upset, and anxious, but these were thought of as generally understandable reactions to what was happening in their life.
Insane Medicine, Chapter 7: Industrialised Psychotherapy Markets Western Folk Psychology (Part 1)
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Editor’s Note: Over the course of several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Sami Timimi’s book, Insane Medicine
. This week, he explores the common factors that influence therapy’s success, the equal outcomes for different therapy types, and the over-promotion of CBT. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.
The replication of findings is one of the defining hallmarks of science. For a finding by one research team to be more broadly accepted as a reliable finding, other teams should follow a similar methodology and get similar results. Replication of results is a necessary step to something becoming part of scientific knowledge.
Insane Medicine, Chapter 6: Neoliberalism and the Compare-and-Compete Society
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Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America will publish a serialized version of Sami Timimi’s book, Insane Medicine
. This week, he explores the concept of neoliberalism and its impact creating distress, marketing it, and selling its treatment. Each Monday, a new section of the book will be published, and all chapters will be archived here.
What is neoliberalism? Neoliberalism refers to a way of organising our political and economic systems using a particular model of capitalism that promotes free market economics based around competition as the best way to organise and develop pretty much every aspect of society. It’s generally associated with policies of economic liberalisation that promote privatisation, deregulation, globalisation, free trade, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector across all sections of th
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