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The document discusses the growing influence of the biomedical model and process of medicalization. It argues that psychiatry has accumulated significant social control by defining and treating increasingly normal behaviors as medical issues. In particular, psychiatry has worked with pharmaceutical companies to medicalize conditions like ADHD and depression, expanding markets for drugs while also tightening social norms and control. This has occurred largely without strong evidence of an underlying biologic
- Author
- Cristín Ní Liatháin
- Language
- EN