Sentences with phrase «increased financial clout»

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This therapy - unfriendly worldview, amounting almost to a form of popular brainwashing, is sustained by the usual suspects: DSM, which provides a faux legitimacy to artificially constructed psychomedical disorders; Big Pharma's financial, social, and political clout, which vastly outclasses Little Psychotherapy on every measure; direct - to - consumer ads for psychotropic drugs, which turn every TV watcher or magazine reader into his or her own personal psychiatrist; and decreasing insurance reimbursement for therapy, as well as increasing reimbursements for prescriptions, which means that if people want therapy, they'll probably have to pony up for it themselves.