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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

By definition, nobody forgets the details of an experience that creates unforgettable memories. Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.” What does this have to do with how psychiatry residents can best learn psychopharmacology?

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The Fight Against Involuntary Commitment: Are Protection and Advisory Councils Fulfilling Their Mission?

Mad in America

S purred on by narratives that street problems are caused by mental health issues rather than by worsening economic inequities, new bills expanding powers to involuntarily commit people have been leapfrogging each other in recent years from California and New York to Oregon , Oklahoma , Indiana and beyond.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. Beck: I can definitely relate to that story. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too

Mad in America

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society.

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We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy

Mad in America

I’m going to introduce to you a new definition of mental health and, in doing so, am going to show that this group is more mentally healthy, for which we should be very concerned. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities.

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‘It Was a Joint Effort’: Deborah Kasdan on Bringing Her Late Sister’s Story to Life

Mad in America

She was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 23, and she was ultimately hospitalized many times, right? Oh, that’s her ‘mental illness.’” Kasdan : Definitely, definitely. She took it seriously. Biancolli: And of course, now we know so much. There’s so much research connecting trauma with psychotic breaks.