Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 24, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. The work has already been featured in the countrys leading newspaper, El Mercurio.

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Genetics and mental health Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. This is in contrast with the typical chronological history of who served as superintendent, for how long, the date new buildings were opened and other such changes.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness 85

Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. I went on to write a second book educating the church about stigma. Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. I thought I had recovered.

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 80

Department of Psychiatry News

JUNE 12, 2025

Daria Bukhman is an educator, health coach and wellbeing expert. Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 98

ADDitude

JUNE 17, 2025

With a neurodivergent brain, it does take me longer than average to process certain things. Lying is characterized as a common expression of ADHD. It is also widely seen as a character flaw. But people with ADHD don’t bend the truth because they’re inherently flawed; we often lie for one or more of the following perfectly good reasons: 1.

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Trauma and the brain Education 55

Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2024

From the safety of ones surroundings to access to proper nutrition, sleep, and social stability, the circumstances of life have a lasting biochemical effect on the brain. These areas of the brain impact how a person reacts to the world. Those with high ACE scores have brains physically different from those with low or no ACE scores.

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Trauma and the brain Construction Sleep and mental health Legal 143

Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

In this blog, a therapist who works with children and young people expands on some of these worrying consequences, including the imposition of identities, the co-option of the neurodiversity movement for personal and professional gain, the restrictions on therapeutic work, and the silencing of dissenting views. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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Trauma and the brain Construction Education Eating disorders 144

Mad in America

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eugene Gendlin In a previous blog, I wrote about my experiences in psychedelic therapy, and the ways that the psychedelic-assisted therapy model by design perpetuates one of our cultures deepest wounds: feeling alone. Listening shows that the nature of human beings is nothing like socialized content. Midday) — Jena, April 24th 1884.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Psychedelic therapy Education 126

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s Note: This blog is also being published on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. T he one-size-fits-all autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis, as configured in the Revised Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM- 5-TR), is a clinical catastrophe. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Autism spectrum Trauma and the brain Education Hospitality 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals. Trauma fragments our being as we disconnect from our experiences, suppress our feelings and hide away our wounded parts. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies. When trauma is healed, so do our bodies.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 91

Mad in America

AUGUST 10, 2024

I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me. I am typing this blog in the back of a taxi wending its way to the airport through the hilly landscape of Sardinia, my beautiful daughter sleeping in the seat beside me.

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Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Social Services 119

Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Science has a pretty good grasp of how the body and brain work, right? Psychologists help people who feel bad and doctors prescribe medicine for broken brains with a lack of one or another neurotransmitter. The brain may be controlled by neurotransmitters, but neurotransmitters are affected by the life you live.

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Neurotransmitters and mental health Poverty and mental health Trauma and the brain Pharmaceuticals 99

Center for Integrative Psychiatry

MAY 22, 2025

The emerging field of integrative psychiatry and gut health highlights how closely the digestive system and brain are connected. In a world where mental health care is evolving rapidly, integrative psychiatry has emerged as a thoughtful and comprehensive approach that looks beyond symptoms and medications. Lets break it down.

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Nutrition and mood Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health Holistic mental health 52

Now Psych

MAY 14, 2024

Defining Psychosis Psychosis is a condition that affects the brain, causing a person to experience symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking. It is characterized by symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and disordered thinking. It can also occur after a woman gives birth ( postpartum psychosis ).

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Bipolar disorder Genetics and mental health Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trauma and the brain 52

Mad in America

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Waking dreamsallowus to dream while awake, significantly enhancing self-awareness, creative problem-solving, andthe ability to findmeaning in life experiences. Indigenous culturesaround the worldrecognize and intentionally cultivate waking dreams for both personal and communitywell-being.

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Sleep and mental health Self-awareness Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain 101

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. T his is the fourth and final part of our blog series on neurodiversity. Editor’s Note: Mad in the UK and Mad in America are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. The series is being archived here.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Self-awareness Personality disorders 142

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Im not even a therapist. Im someone whos struggled with mental distress and the systems meant to help. If theres one thing Ive learned, its this: our approach to mental health often misses the forest for the trees. It focuses on individuals as though they exist in a vacuum, ignoring the environments and systems that shape their lives. Experience.

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Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Education 122

Mad in America

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The real question is whether the “brighter future” is always so distant. When mundane events increasingly take on the character of the surreal or the apocalyptic, what does it mean to be normal or sane? I believe these kinds of questions will shape our understanding of the future of mental health. Yet these things are not acts of God.

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Trauma and the brain Legal Self-awareness Technology 129

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A bout five years into my career in the mental health field, I began to truly realize the depths of corruption involved in the pharmaceutical industry. My eyes were first opened during a clinical psychology internship at a local psychiatric hospital. I was completely shocked at what I witnessed in the industry-sponsored research trials.

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Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Pharmaceuticals Aging and mental health 131

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 Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 124

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. My fellow students and I started our first year ‘pre-clinical’ training with 4 ½ days a week of lectures. Those who failed would have one chance to re-sit and if unsuccessful, they would have to leave medical school.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 145

Lawyers with Depression

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders. Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist in Naperville, Illinois. What is depression a response to?

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Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 52

Department of Psychiatry News

JULY 1, 2025

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. The award was created in her memory following her death in March last year.

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Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Sleep and mental health 52

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Who knows more about the subject of this blog, they or I? 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.

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Trauma and the brain Hospitality Bipolar disorder Education 122

Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Our brain is not a computer, and our heart is not a pump, though the materialistic world view is pretty good at convincing us to believe we are devoid of Spirit, the divine creative part of us which is never wounded and if not eclipsed by legal or illegal substances, is able to always make a choice. People don’t feel heard or seen.

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Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 120

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).

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Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Hospitality Manufacturing 120

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

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. These processes are not, in themselves, entirely novel, as they have been a part of many alternative movements throughout time.

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Trauma and the brain Aging and mental health Self-awareness Bipolar disorder 132