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The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our LivesA Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
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  • A Dowry of Blood (A Dowry of Blood, #1)
    Thoughts from 8% (page 24)

    Love how quickly we begin the story! It’s not the usual “get to know the characters” type of book, and I find it rather refreshing.

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  • Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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    Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected

    I appreciated that the first chapter is a debriefing on the science of lithium-ion batteries (which Cobalt is widely used for) and how Cobalt came to be in Congo. I also appreciated how Kara went into the economics for the Cobalt mining industry and how complicit high-tech countries are in the exploitation of the Congonese. It was a basic overview of Congo that I needed before Kara gets into the specifics of the book, because even with a deep dive of the Wikipedia page on DRC, I was still missing some information.

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    Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

    Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

    Siddharth Kara

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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    Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 4.5Characters: Plot:
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    This book is great regardless if you work or not in the mental healt fild, what I enjoyed the most about this book was the way the author present history, conecting the dots not in a linal way but more like an endless spiral. I would also like to add that this book highlight something really important, that is the empathy that the mentally ill patients deserve and so rarely are given, I hope this perspective is shared more and than eventually we can take care of this forgotten and vulnerable section of our society.

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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    “Through the 1940’s and the 50’s, the typical schizophrenic patient has been confused, docile and regressed. By the late 1960’s however, new diagnostic criteria increasingly identified schizophrenia with violence and paranoia.” I can’t stop thinking of this, on how we have been leaving the mentally ill behind when they get “harder” to treat, when they are sedated it’s fine, but if they are “aggressive” we want to toss them aside, this book has been keeping me thinking on this vulnerable section of our society and I really hope that the perception on the mentally ill patients changes and we start to focus on how to actually help them and take care of them and not only seated them so we can be comfortable.

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
    Thoughts from 62%

    “Through the 1940’s and the 50’s, the typical schizophrenic patient has been confused, docile and regressed. By the late 1960’s however, new diagnostic criteria increasingly identified schizophrenia with violence and paranoia.” I can’t stop thinking of this, on how we have been leaving the mentally ill behind when they get “harder” to treat, when they are sedated it’s fine, but if they are “aggressive” we want to toss them aside, this book has been keeping me thinking on this vulnerable section of our society and I really hope that the perception on the mentally ill patients changes and we start to focus on how to actually help them and take care of them and not only seated them so we can be comfortable.

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
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    “The American neurologist complained about asylum superintendents who cared more about the interiors of their buildings than the “inner structure of the brain.” The asylums superintendents accused anatomists of caring only about brain tissue and not about the needs of the mentally ill.”

    Something tells me none of them cared about them🙃

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  • Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
    Thoughts from 32% can we talk about the somatic therapeutic era?

    I just want to start this post by saying that I understand that this was the 1930's, but why on earth this people were allowed to "treat" a really vulnerable sector of our society's? like, this so called doctors arrived and where like, "I'm going to cure schizophrenia transfusing malarian infected blood to patients so they have this massive fever and then cure it and after that they will be ok"... and people just sit back and said fair, that does sound like science ????

    Also, what is wrong with Adolf Mayer and why did he supported every single treatment, he was like "Insulin shock, I'm in, Electric Shock Therapy, why not?, Lobotomy, sounds about right" tbh I don't know why we give medical credentials to this kind of people.

    I guess my final conclusion is that, the ego surrounding the medical is so massive that it blind them on the whole propose of medicine, which is serving the people, specially the most vulnerable, but I guess they only wanted to pick their brains for possibilities of a nobel prize and not really to improve peoples lives, idk this just make me sad :(

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    mahoo's 2025 Reading Challenge

    9 of 12 read
    Breasts and Eggs
    The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry
    All About Love: New Visions
    Paris: The Memoir
    Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
    Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
    Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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    All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

    All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

    Elizabeth Comen

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    Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

    Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson

    Tourmaline Tourmaline

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