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Grace vs Shame

Dr. Deb

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital. One of the options it put forward was that coercive treatment and hospitalization should be based on capacity rather than a supposed diagnosis of mental illness. Whitaker: You really were being taught to understand the person’s life at the beginning.

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Self Care Tips for Winter Months

Dr. Deb

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)

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Psychiatry Criticism Politics: When the Enemy of Your Enemy Is Not Your Friend

Mad in America

Szasz’s libertarian political judgment for his involvement with CCHR was that it was the only organization that had money and access to lawyers and was, he recounted, “trying to free mental patients who were incarcerated in mental hospitals with whom there was nothing wrong, who had committed no crimes, who wanted to get out of the hospital.

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“Dad, Something’s Not Right. I Need Help”: Richard Fee on the Dangers of Adderall

Mad in America

It really hit me when he came home in 2009. Eventually, he was placed in a psychiatric hospital and deemed suicidal. Fee: He started working with me at the store in the fall of 2009. He wanted to stay in Greensboro because he had a great support group and loved the area. But then, I started noticing changes in his behavior.

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A.E. Bennett Basic Research Award

Society of Biological Psychiatry (SOBP).

Previous Recipients 2005 - Stephan Heckers, MD - McLean Hospital 2006 - Shitij Kapur, MD, PhD - Centre for Addiction and Mental Health 2007 - Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, PhD - National Institute of Mental Health 2008 - Alexander Neumeister, MD - Yale University and  Ramin V.

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Reverted Rights Celebration!

Dr. Deb

2) quizzes (3) read-aloud visits (3) resiliency (5) schizophrenia (4) screenings (1) SEL (1) self help booksteachers (1) self-care (9) self-esteem (18) service animals. (1) 3) trauma (39) trauma. (1) 1) traumatic injury (1) treatment (59) treatment. (1) 1) trends (30) triggers (2) violence (14) volunteering (1) well-being (92) well-being. (20)