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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

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His extensive body of work includes Persons: Understanding Psychological Selfhood and Agency (2010), Psychology and the Question of Agency (2003), and The Psychology of Human Possibility and Constraint (1999) books that challenge psychologys tendency to isolate individuals from history, culture, and power structures.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6 Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise. fold for lifetime depressive disorders.

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Power, Privilege & Controlling the Narrative: Vested Interests in ‘Mental Health’

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It isnt just diagnostic processes that have problems the construction of diagnostic labels themselves has also been roundly criticised for lacking a scientific basis, and this has been acknowledged by many of the people actually involved in the creation of the labels. Original work published 1992) Kupfer, D. 2013, May 3). News release.]