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More Americans than ever before are being diagnosed with psychiatric disorders and treated with psychiatric medications. So wouldn't you expect to see improved mental health? Well, you would be wrong. In June 2018, the Center for Disease Control released a study documenting the grand failure of modern psychiatry--a 30% increase in suicide from 1999 to 2016. Dr. Minot reviews the promises of this biological era of psychiatry, the findings of the study, the response of America's psychiatric leadership--and draws his own conclusions.