Psychiatric Times
JUNE 25, 2025
A Tool for the Clinician's Desk Unlike many tools that are rooted solely in DSM symptom clusters or factor-analytic models, the BPD-I™ was constructed from a clinical standpoint, drawing upon the extensive psychodynamic literature on BPD.
Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2025
Laura was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. While previously bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depressive illness, was applied to a narrow group of people who experience dramatic extremes of mood and energy level interspersed with periods of fairly normal function, it was now applied to a much broader range of people.
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Mad in America
APRIL 29, 2025
DSM diagnoses are now widely accepted as universal and fixed biomedical disorders by both the general public and most mental health professionals. In reality, however, many of these so-called disorders reflect cultural and socio-political constructions of suffering, particularly specific to the United States.
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 12, 2025
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Psychiatric Times
JUNE 24, 2025
Gazzellone, MD, FRCPC Over the past 30 years, the structured definition of medical disease has largely centered on the HDA developed by Jerome Wakefield for mental disorders in 1992. 7 According to the HDA, only dysfunctions that cause significant harm are considered disorders.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 29, 2023
I tried going back to school after the brain injury, but between the bipolar disorder and the head trauma, I couldn’t handle the stress and pressure anymore. As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I struggled despite all my efforts, struggled greatly.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Most in the taskforce also agreed that the criteria for the ADHD construct to be used are highly subjective and contextually situated and there is a risk of pathologizing normal (or often functional) behavior. This is, to our knowledge, the first set of guidelines on information about any of the disorders defined by the DSM.
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