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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory

Psychiatric Times

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. Subscribe Now!

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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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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

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. Chronotype and social jetlag: a (self-) critical review.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). Not caring for or being aware of basic attachment needs in the interaction with others is probably a high risk factor for depression and other mental illnesses. Bateman, 2012).

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

Mad in America

Depsychiatrization describes the processes by which a diagnosed individual learns to expel psychiatrically induced self-concepts and substitute them for more empowering and nurturing understandings. Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative.