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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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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. American Academy of Sleep Medicine; 2024. 1979;2(1):1-154. Gauld C, Wakefield JC, Micoulaud-Franchi JA. Sleep Med Rev.

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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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Representation and Relevance: Diverse Scholars in Psychology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Underrepresentation is a social construct that is perpetuated by the political structures that have historically been placed to keep certain groups from equal representation. She also served as the Communication and Marketing Officer for the APSSC during the 2024–2025 academic year.

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2024 Cohort Reflects on First Year of APS Editorial Fellowship

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Ivan Carbajal Leyla Loued-Khenissi Chelsea Boccagno Kongmeng Liew Aishwarya Rajesh The first cohort of editorial fellows joined APS in April 2024, bringing their rich array of experiences and backgrounds to the program. APS spoke with fellows from the 2024 cohort to hear about their experiences and gather advice for future fellows.

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Reclassifying Psychopathology

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

But HiTOP was built using the DSM constructs. In order to truly get away from the DSM constructs and start from scratch, Forbes used individual symptoms as the building blocks. I think that it speaks to the robustness of those dimensions as organizing constructs to help us understand peoples symptom presentations. Krueger, R.

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Investigating Human-Like Processing in Large Language Models: A Glimpse into Findings from Early-Career Researchers

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

View past presidential columns Laura Gwilliams’s research has focused on determining the brain regions involved in the processes underlying speech comprehension, from the decoding of acoustic signals to the construction of high-level aspects of meaning. 2024) Dissociating language and thought in large language models. Popham, S.