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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Establishment psychiatry does acknowledge that emotional suffering and behavioral disturbanceswhat it calls mental illnesseshave biological-psychological-social roots. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine. medical schools.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.

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On Not Becoming David Foster Wallace

Mad in America

Wallace hanged himself in 2008 after withdrawing from a long-term medication, experiencing unbearable withdrawal symptoms and finding himself unable to regain relief (such as it was) in his old medication or new ones prescribed to him. OCD has a strong genetic component and was thought to be incurable.

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Intimate Partner Violence Among Women with ADHD

ADDitude

Recent research from Berkeley Girls with ADHD Longitudinal Study (BGALS) found that women aged 17-24 who had received a childhood diagnosis of ADHD were five times more likely than their neurotypical peers to experience physical IPV. I didnt know how to deal with it, so I kept on keeping on. What do you do? You finish dinner.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

These positive outcomes also include improved relational functioning, enhanced mentalization abilities, and increased quality of life. It is well established that ASD is linked to difficulties with an ability what Peter Fonagy and colleagues call mentalizing; a cognitive and emotional understanding of human behaviours.