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Interview with German activist Peter Lehmann: “I Lost My Fear and Gained Everything.”

Mad in America

The interview was initially conducted on February 27, 2017, and then updated recently for publication on Mad in Portugal. Editor’s note: This is an interview conducted by Tiago Pires Marques, editor of Mad in Portugal. I came into contact with her there by chance.

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Reclassifying Psychopathology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Dimensions instead of diagnoses To address some of these issues, in 2017 a group including Wright and Forbes created the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP). But HiTOP was built using the DSM constructs. The old way isn’t moving us forward, said Wright. Carpenter, W. Forbes, M. Forbush, K. Goldberg, D., Ivanova, M.

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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). 2017 Jun;206(2):1101-1111. Epub 2017 Apr 10.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. The obstacles are: 1. the dominance of the biomedical paradigm; 2.

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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.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

Further, to loosely quote Linda Smith at a Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress 2017, Even if we remove these systems with the ideal to create new ones, the same minds will perpetuate and replicate the system we were moving away from. In order for the world and our communities to survive, we need to radically adapt our ways.

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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

Real Psychiatry

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound. Epub 2017 Jul 24.