Mad in America

MAY 3, 2025

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Genetics and mental health Bipolar disorder 131

Mad in America

MAY 17, 2025

It is now common knowledge that there is no reliable biological test, or biomarker, for any of the hundreds of disorders in the DSM-5. However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics.

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Autism spectrum 119

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In my last piece , I wrote about various neuro-rehab therapies I engaged in with Dr. J, the functional brain injury specialist, and that there came a point when my husband and I knew we’d reached the end of what medical science could offer me. I sat down to write this article with the experience of severe akathisia fresh in my mind.

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Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood Bipolar disorder 124

Psychiatric Times

JUNE 6, 2025

BRIEF BOOK REVIEWS Popular Books Relevant to Mental Health Educated: A Memoir Tara Westover; Random House, 2018 352 pages; $12 (hardcover) Reviewed by Edmund S. Higgins, MD Explore transformative memoirs and insights on estrangement in these 2 brief book reviews.

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Bipolar disorder Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Eating disorders 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

W hen I had my first schizophrenic hallucination 61 years ago, I told myself that I was in the privileged position of having the terrifying knowledge of what such a hallucination actually is. I had seen the Light and it was divine. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision. I told myself that this was surely a Beatific Vision.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Bipolar disorder Education 124

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Individuals on the autism spectrum often experience comorbid depression, social stress, and difficulties in relating to themselves and others. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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Autism spectrum Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 40

Mad in America

JANUARY 14, 2025

Such a man is in a permanent state of trauma, since his superego wants him to be heterosexual while his libido insists that he is homosexual. This paranoia accentuates the trauma that one constantly feels and leads to a full-blown schizophrenic psychosis. Most people grow up in religions that condemn homosexuality.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Pharmaceuticals Bipolar disorder 105

Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

What does it mean for an individual to perceive of themself as pathologically disordered in the mind? And none better to start with than the diagnoses labeled personality disorders. I was employed for two years in the Danish psychiatric system in an outpatient clinic treating people diagnosed with so-called personality disorders.

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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 133