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The Myth of Neuropsychiatry

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We have seen that biological psychiatry’s vaunted cost-effectiveness is a circular concept. Its very handling of mental health as a material commodity stems from quantitative definitions of efficiency that are influenced by economics.1–3 These definitions imply a mode of “normal”4 living that fuels the modern market. They exclude as a “disease” deviation from commercially exploitable behavior.

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