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Your Prescribing Doctor:
Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex
The child of a Jungian therapist and ER physician, Rebekah Frumkin always counted herself among the more-or-less mentally well until the day she was eating stale graham crackers in a psych ward while a sympathetic doctor explained to her that she was bipolar. This launched an (ongoing, cross-continental) investigation into mental illness, its causes, and its psychoactive cures. She shares her neurochemical findings, along with other thoughts on being-in-the-world, here.
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April 1, 2015Your Prescribing Doctor: Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex: Der Sturm und Drang: Adolescence and Adulthood (Zoloft, Prozac, Celexa, Xanax, Wellbutrin, Klonopin)
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February 26, 2015Your Prescribing Doctor: Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex: Kidhood (Ritalin, Concerta, Adderall)
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December 12, 2014Your Prescribing Doctor: Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex: I Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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November 5, 2014Your Prescribing Doctor: Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex: Subcontinental Lithiation, Part 2
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October 17, 2014Your Prescribing Doctor: Dispatches from the Psycho-pharmaceutical Complex: Subcontinental Lithiation, Part 1
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