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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

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In my article “‘ It Was Really Sick:’ Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews ,” published in Symbolic Interaction , I explored the role of morality in personality disorder assessment interviews in two Finnish psychiatric outpatient clinics. The article is part of my doctoral dissertation.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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Unbalanced, for instance, in the sense that much emphasis is placed on brain and genetic studies that to this day have cost billions of dollars, while showing only very small associations—not providing any basis for biological screening. Genetic studies are also the cause of many misunderstandings.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

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.” —Erich Fromm, The Sane Society (1955) W ith the mainstream media finally reporting that “ depression is not caused by low levels of serotonin ,” many people ask me: Why does psychiatry repeatedly get it wrong when it comes to not only to its theories of mental illness but in so many other areas?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Furthermore, even though I have sometimes used recent articles to demonstrate that the authors are wrong, the knowledge I convey has existed for many years prior to 2016. In 2012, the US Centers for Disease Control reported that 25% of Americans have a mental illness. 695 This is sickening. 10:63 This is b t.

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The New WHO and UN Guidance: Psychiatry Must Entirely Change

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A fter years of work involving hundreds of people in dozens of countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have released their joint production, Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation: Guidance and Practice ( WHO/OHCHR , 2023, referred to as the Guidance.

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Antidepressants Cause Cardiovascular Disease, Study Finds

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A new study published in BMJ Mental Health finds that antidepressants are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). The authors employed Mendelian randomization, a method that uses genetic information to examine causal relationships, to establish that the observed association likely means antidepressants are causing CVD.

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Accutane and Mental Health: Converging Physical and Emotional Well-being

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Your skin health and mental well-being are closely connected. At LightWork Therapy and Recovery , we understand the complex connection between physical treatments and emotional health. In this article, we will delve into the intricate link between Accutane and mental health.