Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Mad in America, the Biopsychosocial Model, and Psychiatric History

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On the Mad in America podcast this week we have Robert Whitaker with us to answer questions sent in by readers and listeners. Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to get in touch. You sent some great questions and on this and our next podcast, we will be talking with Bob about Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice.
0:13.4	Hello, this is James and welcome to the podcast. And this week, we thought it might be nice to have
0:19.2	Madden America founder, Robert Whitaker,
0:21.5	with us to answer your questions.
0:23.8	Thank you to all of you who took the time and trouble to get in touch.
0:27.7	You sent some great questions.
0:29.5	And so on this and our next podcast, we'll be talking with Bob about Madden America,
0:35.5	the biopsychosocial model, the history of psychiatry, pharmaceutical
0:39.9	marketing, and issues with psychiatric treatments, including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive
0:46.5	therapy. So on to part one of the discussion now, and we'll hear more from Bob on the next
0:52.0	podcast later in December.
0:55.2	Bob, welcome.
0:59.3	Thank you so much for joining me again for the Madden America podcast.
1:05.4	And also to spend a bit of time this time answering reader and listener questions,
1:07.8	which people have helpfully sent in.
1:09.0	So firstly, welcome.
1:10.0	It's good to have you on.
1:11.5	And it's nice to be here again.
1:18.3	Thanks for, thanks for inviting me. Okay. All right. Well, to get underway, the kind of first batch of question is really a kind of around the theme of Madden America itself. So Karina sent in the first
1:24.2	question. Karina is someone you know. and she's asked, could you tell us how
1:28.8	MIA got started and what your role was in getting it underway?
1:32.8	So after I published Anatomy of an Epidemic, I began hearing from people who really wanted
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