Mad in America

APRIL 30, 2025

When were you in medical school in the UK, were they teaching the DSM III disease model, or did you hear a different story about what causes depression? Moncrieff: When I was in medical school we were taught, as we’re still officially taught now, the biopsychosocial model of mental disorders. Moncrieff: Yes.

Neurotransmitters and mental health 145

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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. Human suffering has many different dimensions.

Trauma and the brain 131

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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.

Self-awareness 140

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