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

Mad in America

In multiple studies linking childhood trauma to depression, The Truth About Depression (2003) reports that depression was from 1.6 Critical Thinking: Ironically, while a denial of painful realities can cause problems, an awareness of painful realities can fuel depression and anxiety. fold for lifetime depressive disorders.

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TIFT #115: Of Time and the Inner Mind

How Psychiatry Works

One of my major goals is to promote familiarity with and appreciation of the inner self that has a huge role in ours and our clients' daily lives. But first, a bit more about the concepts of mind and the inner self. This is helpful for both therapist and client, as we partner to help the inner self change and grow.

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Study: Rise in ADHD Diagnoses Reflects Greater Education, Not Prevalence

ADDitude

The study says diagnoses are following greater awareness and less stigma, along with improved education, training, and symptom recognition, particularly in historically overlooked girls, women , and racial and ethnic minorities. Self-harm as the first presentation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adolescents. in the U.S.

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

Mad in America

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. Can you quantify justice?