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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. Subscribe Now!

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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

L aura Delano and I met sometime around 2012 at a Mad in America film festival. They might point the way to helpful treatments but fundamentally they are heuristic constructs rather than definitive descriptions and understandings of clinical problems.

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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

5 Widely debated in psychiatry, the HDA conceptualizes a disorder as a hybrid construct combining a factual physiological dysfunction—a failure of an evolved function—with harm, as evaluated by sociocultural standards. 7 According to the HDA, only dysfunctions that cause significant harm are considered disorders.

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Phenotypic diversity from dogs to diseases

Real Psychiatry

This tree was constructed looking at 12 exons (8,080 base pairs (bp) and 4 introns (3029 bp). Each cladogram is constructed with Bayesian analysis generating the respective bootstrap values from Markov chain analysis and posterior probabilities (see legend for location). 2012 Feb;23(1-2):19-27. Epub 2012 Jan 10.

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

For them, it’s something intrinsic to a person waiting to be discovered and identified, not a social construct created by a committee of psychiatrists. Have the cultural constructs of 21 st century Western neoliberal society happened upon a universal truth about what it means to be human? Disability and Society, 27(6), 883-887.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., Bateman, 2012). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.