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...alleging a conspiracy among psychiatrists? Not exactly. Psychiatrists are taught the biological models of mental illness and come to believe in them, he says. He recalls a recurring exchange he had with doctors while researching Mad in America...
Ever since his coruscating book Mad in America was published in 2002, American Robert Whitaker has been a poster boy for the anti-psychiatry movement. In Mad in America (Perseus Books), he argued that the assumption of a physical cause for schizophrenia had given rise to many wrongheaded treatments, from ice-water immersion to today's antipsychotic drugs. These days, the Pulitzer Prize finalist makes a similar case against psychiatry over its approach to the treatment of depression...
...whirlwind tour of Spain, as he searches for a way to avoid his old identity and to discover how to live a completely new life.The beauty of the movie is not encased in the plot, which is simple enough. Rather than turn this into high-tension melodrama, complete with mad car chases and imprisonments, Antonioni pares everything down to the most minimalist possible point. The delicious assortment of visual simplicity needs no additional thrills or frills. From his beautiful palette—all blues, beiges and whites—to his painstakingly executed shots—whether of flies buzzing...
...What does it feel like to be invisible? Thanks to the invention of the “College Visit,” humankind is finally able to answer this question. Sure, the Facebook leaves you exposed to cyber-stalking, but we all know it’s mad hard to perform a successful “global search.” In fact, this is another reason you should not try to make any friends at another college. For one thing, it’s lame and worthless, but more importantly, it will leave a trail of acquaintances in your...
...School.After last year’s tsunami and Hurricane Katrina financial pledges, the University was criticized by some for using its funds to benefit nonprofit organizations rather than for academic pursuits.“It’s a situation where the University is going to make somebody mad no matter what it does,” said Peter D. Hall, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government’s (KSG) Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. “I think that it makes much more sense to encourage members of the University community...