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  "issue_key": "vol05-no2-2017",
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  "season": "Winter 2017",
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  "section": "Research Article",
  "title": "Mental Health in the Age of Pharmacology; Medicine and Pharmacy as a Panacea to Treating Mental Illness",
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      "given_name": "Jon",
      "family_name": "Mills",
      "credentials": "Professor, PsyD., PhD",
      "affiliation": "Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto",
      "email": "psychologist@sympatico.ca",
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  "abstract": "Mental health service delivery in many parts of North America and the United Kingdom is maintained by organized medicine, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the insurance industry, each advocating a quick fix treatment mentality that continues to be spoon-fed unscrupulously to the masses. As a result, there has been a wholesale brainwash by the new drug culture within contemporary society that has been received with open arms by a passive public in search of a fast cure. These propagandizing efforts have paid off, for the public shows little interest to change. They are discontent but manipulated by persuasive medical professionals to take drugs rather than face their suffering more directly and effectively. They pine for help but are offered few alternatives. As a result, psychotherapy has been underutilized and diminished in value for what it genuinely has to offer the public; and when publicly funded, it has devolved into a manualized, prescriptive step-by-step recipe that caricaturizes authentic therapeutic intervention. Psychoanalytic paradigms are simply marginalized. Mainstream medicine advocates for chemicals, and this appeal to authority is hard to resist due to the medicalization of mental healthcare, especially in Canada. This is further due to a collective identification based on the wishful fantasy to have problems magically disappear. The tablet unconsciously symbolizes this fantasy.",
  "keywords": [
    "Mental Health",
    "Crisis",
    "Pharmacology",
    "Quick-Fix Models",
    "Psychotherapy"
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  "first_page": 116,
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    "21\\. Adler Graduate Professional School, Toronto . Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to Prof. Jon Mills, Psy.D, Ph.D., ABPP, 1104 Shoal Point Rd., Ajax, Ontario, L1S 1E2, Canada. Email: psychologist@sympatico.ca",
    "22\\. JM: ‘…but when you include alcoholism, addictions, and other mental disorders, nearly a billion people in the world population could be affected by mental illness…’"
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