Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews. BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Ostensibly, Westover was homeschooled.

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Behavioral Collective Podcast

APRIL 3, 2023

Annie also gets a lot of calls from families in crisis, particularly around behavior or mental health. Being a similar age, both being women, both being parents of children with needs, they both look to each other for their expert opinion. They often text each other during IEP meetings. Asking questions like: Can I do it?

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ADDitude

JUNE 2, 2025

[ Free Download: Cheat Sheet of ADHD Discipline Strategies ] In a recent ADDitude survey, 177 parents recommended the resources that work for them from helpful books to online tools produced by experts in the field. 14 Talks Before Age 14 by Michelle Icard The Price of Privilege by Madeline Levine Ph.D. Patricia Quinn, M.D.;

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Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

It will be easier to dive into the depths of darkness and despair that I went through as a mental health patient if I start with a story of hope. At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services 119

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

My sister took antidepressants and my family has a lot of mental health issues, so based on that, I was thrown into the same category. Starting at the age of five I can remember being fearful of her. I became a yoga teacher while working in recruiting and aspired to move my career towards health and wellness.

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Child Mind Intitute

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Your child and their peers will soon become aware of those differences as well, if they havent already. Undiagnosed kids with autism may worry theres something wrong with them, unable to pinpoint why they feel different from other kids their age. You may want to meet with a mental health professional yourself.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If you go before 1980, back to DSM-I and DSM-II, those books tell of how psychiatric disorders often are reactions to difficulties in the environment or, say, to stressors in the family. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. But the U.K.

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Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 11, 2023

His books include Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry: The Birth of Postpsychiatry , Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Shape Clinical Practice, and Depression: Integrating Science, Culture, and Humanities. He has two books forthcoming: Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema and a co-edited Mad Studies Reader.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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Mad in America

JUNE 6, 2024

In the twenty-first century, there has been no higher-level psychiatrist then Thomas Insel , director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015. Insel is a prime example of a top psychiatrist with exuberance about psychiatry regardless of his awareness of the reality of its repeated failures.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Beth later featured my story and several others in her 1994 book The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegation of Sexual Abuse. To be clear: we cannot exist as a society without law, research, medicine, science, and mental health care. One other author and several journalists published my story, too.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In this interview, we talk about her experiences of withdrawal from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and her debut memoir, May Cause Side Effects , published in 2022 which is one of the first books on antidepressant withdrawal to make it to the mass market. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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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. The anti-hero of the novel holds a preference for the perfect conception of himself.

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Mad in America

MARCH 30, 2024

But the combined intelligence and cognitive awareness of Matt and his mother’s tenacity for answers undoubtedly gave him a second chance on life. I knew in October of 2018 that Matt was in trouble during a phone call, when he told me in a cheerful voice that he had been to the ER for “mental health reasons” but was “fine.”

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Editor’s Note: Over the next several months, Mad in America is publishing a serialized version of Les Ruthven’s book, Much of U.S. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here. Depression is undoubtedly a major health problem, but I believe the soaring “increase” is a fiction and not real.

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Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

She is the author of six books on the treatment of anxiety and depression published by W.W. An international trainer of mental health professionals, Dr. Wehrenberg: Because depression comprises sadness. The loss of a self-esteem, a loss of a loved one, the loss of a desired goal.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The following is the second excerpt adapted from Healing Companions , a book by the MIA author Sam Ruck (his pen name) that describes his life with, and love for, his wife and her “alters.” I call this validate and turn : In chapter 5 of my book, I fully explain this concept. Our son and I freaked out!

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Lawyers with Depression

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

He wrote eight books, includingChallenge of the Heart(1985),Journey of the Heart(1990), andLove and Awakening(1996). And our commonly held psychological theories make it hard for people to make direct contact with depression as a living experience, by framing it as an objective mental disorder to be quickly eliminated. He died in 2019.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Since age 10 or 11, when she first started dancing with a youth ballet company, she would pull up Instagram and fixate on other dancers—looking at their bodies, comparing them with hers. Every other day, it seems, some new article appears on declines in child and adolescent wellbeing and spikes in suicide attempts and self-harm.

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Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Self-awareness 138

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2025

S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. But theres a paradox here: The U.S.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Dr. Andrews is also concerned with the evolution of the serotonin system and the effects of antidepressants on mental and physical health. She wrote a beautiful book called Bluets , and a line stood out to me, which feels very relevant to your work. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant. Despite the seemingly common knowledge amongst core MDMA-AT researchers about sexual abuses in the 1980s, Torsten Passie’s 2023 Oxford University Press book The History of MDMA makes no mention of this.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Coopers latest book, Psychology at the Heart of Social Change: Developing a Progressive Vision for Society , examines how psychological theory and practice can be leveraged to create a more equitable world. There have been a few books written from that viewpoint, but I dont sense much energy behind them. Do they recognize it?

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Real Psychiatry

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Public health officials are attacked for providing the best possible public health advice just because some politicians dont like it or need to cover their own incompetence. Aggression has components that occur on a strictly verbal level and aggression toward property or inanimate objects as well as self (2).

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