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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory

Psychiatric Times

A Tool for the Clinician's Desk Unlike many tools that are rooted solely in DSM symptom clusters or factor-analytic models, the BPD-I™ was constructed from a clinical standpoint, drawing upon the extensive psychodynamic literature on BPD.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Cambridge University Press; 2011 2. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, and serves as Honorary Fellow in psychiatry department at the University of Cambridge. References 1. Stahl SM, Davis RL. Best Practices for Medical Educators, 2nd Edition. Deslauriers L, McCarty LS, Miller K, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci.

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“I Made it Through the Horrors of Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal” A Conversation with Comedian Dex Carrington

Mad in America

Those were the two drugs I was on by 2011, after having tried something like 30 or 40 different ones. Siem: I think it goes hand-in-hand with spirituality—or maybe whatever’s left when all the constructs fall away. Siem: What country were you in when all of this was happening? Carrington: I was in Norway. And it works. That’s wild.

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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

Virginia Knowlton Marcus plays this liaison role as CEO at Disability Rights North Carolina (DRNC), and both she and PAC chair Cherene Caraco describe their working relationship as constructive and cooperative. Those sound like constructive developments.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

Even though I had an A average in college at Colorado State University, I dropped out of CSU in 2013, and having tried over 20 different antidepressants and mood stabilizers since 2011, ECT was recommended to me. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management.

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Student Notebook: Is the Clinical Psychology PhD Admissions Process Scientific?

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2011; Woo et al., The role of noncognitive constructs and other background variables in graduate education. ETS Research Report Series, 2011 (1), i133. Research suggests that it may be effective to replace the GRE with personality measures, relevant skill evaluations (i.e., Kyllonen, P. Walters, A. M., & Kaufman, J.

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

Mad in America

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.