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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Follow the age-old axiom of “say what you’re going to say, say it, and then say what you said.”

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From Memory and Plasticity to Collective Cognition and AI

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

convention, APS Fellow Elizabeth Kensinger shared her work on emotional memory, emphasizing how the brain constructs, stores, and retrieves emotionally charged experiences. The research also revealed age-related shifts. We also know that how we frame those memories can have large impacts on our mental health.

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When the Help Becomes Part of the Problem

Mad in America

M y first encounter with the psychiatric system in America was at the age of 18. With each step I took into the building, the kilos of shame I had felt since the age of five built up upon my back. He was amicable, handsome, and seemed to be around the age of twenty-five. 5 on the 4.0 I was a failure. I’ll call him Carlos.

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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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Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

Mad in America

At age 14, after the passing of my grandfather, a big character in our family, I was prescribed the antidepressant Zoloft (sertraline), indicated for OCD, an issue I had increasingly dealt with for the previous couple of years. I got insomnia and could barely sleep. After a year, I tapered off but I was still the same.

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics. As of late 2022, just 31% of U.S.

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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

A Brief Group Social-Belonging Intervention to Improve Mental-Health and Academic Outcomes in BIPOC and First-Generation-to-College Students Erin S. Understanding Ethnoracial Disparities and Advancing Mental Health Equity Through Clinical Psychological Science: Introduction to Special Issue P. Pritchard, Jennifer L.