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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

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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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

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.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

By definition, nobody forgets the details of an experience that creates unforgettable memories. It becomes subject to registration and recall with a greater degree of vivid fidelity and detail than if the same factual content-to-be-learned were paired with no emotionally-laden stimulus.

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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis Author(s): Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, MD, PhD , Christophe Gauld, MD, PhD +2 More Key Takeaways Sleep medicine lacks a structured definition for disorders, complicating diagnosis and classification compared to psychiatry's DSM framework. Siddiqui, BSc; Shizuka Tomatsu, MD; and Matthew J.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

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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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

I was assigned as Leas therapist, and my official goal was to alleviate her of as many of her borderline symptoms as possible, and to educate her on mentalization and the ramification of her disordered personality. And few diagnoses are as adamantly claimed to be biological in nature (counter to all evidence) as much as bipolar disorder.