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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Little has been published on the subject in mainstream psychiatry journals and even less is part of the formal education process for medical students and psychiatry residents. To Strouss great dismay, psychiatry students go uneducated in this sad chapter in its history.

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Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy

Mad in America

Holding a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and having spent over a decade as a traditional therapist, Jenn took a bold step beyond the conventional boundaries of Western education and mental health treatment. There was someone from rec therapy, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, an education componentit was very structured.

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Grandparents and Grandchildren: A Psychiatrist and His Granddaughter Share Their Relationship Implications for Mental Health

Psychiatric Times

Steven Moffic, MD I wonder, how much were you taught in training and continuing education about the role of grandparents in the well-being of grandchildren and vice-versa? My grandparents believed just as much in the power of music and art as in a traditional education. He presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B.

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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

Mad in America

I grew up in a time shortly after the second world war, where I had to deal with parents who were educated and had socialized during the Hitler fascism. So, Ilike many other peoplehad to suffer from an often humiliating and violent education, and, yeah, other people developed better than me. I didnt become this normal man. 366-380).

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Reporting from Canada, #3: A Holocaust Survivor Story

Psychiatric Times

Currently, Phil now volunteers for Ottawa’s Center for Holocaust Education and Scholarship, along with sharing his own story, as in the newspaper story. Like the United States, anti-Semitism has been rising in Canada. He presented the third Rabbi Jeffrey B. Stiffman lecture at Congregation Shaare Emeth in St.

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What a Difference a Year Makes for Juneteenth Day and the Truth

Psychiatric Times

Important information can be hidden in our minds by different means: denial, dissociation, dementia, wish fulfillment, education, and perhaps even past lives as we will be discussing, among the mechanisms. We do it with our patients, especially those traumatized and often must try to distinguish between false memories and true memories.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

A traumatic brain injury in 2002 didn’t help anything. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I attended the University of Colorado and studied Aerospace Engineering, and most importantly at the time, I ski raced. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.