Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

Some neuroscientists argue that we should rather focus our efforts on the upstream social and structural factors, such as trauma and inequity , that create the conditions for mental health concerns to arise. Meanwhile in research and practice, it operates more often than not as a “ bio bio bio model.”

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

of government health spending, the majority of which is spent on institutions and on physical care: “…the biomedical model, which focuses predominantly on diagnosis, medication and symptom reduction, prevails across existing mental health systems. The agenda of the launch event is here , and the full video here ).

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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.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

I knew she didn’t have a brain disease. Yet the trauma underlying Valeries struggles was generally treated as irrelevant to her psychological state, something that only became worse once Valerie received a diagnosis. To me, she was just my sister, Hough explains. Theres no room for your story.

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