Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In Part 1 , we discussed Mad in America, the biopsychosocial model and the history of psychiatry. One was the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest , which presented the staff in a mental hospital as crazier than the patients and, frankly, brutal and oppressive. Why should we pay for anything else? But the U.K.

Pharmaceuticals 145

Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health Hospitality Biopsychosocial model 145

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

He has helped pioneer integrative approaches that unite phenomenology and neuroscience, including a biopsychosocial model grounded in enactive and embodied cognition , as well as a person-centered, ecosocial framework for understanding suffering beyond reductive biological paradigms. I have no mental health problems.

Trauma and the brain 131

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Resilience and coping 131

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma.

Self-awareness 140

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 140