Mad in America

MAY 29, 2025

Robert Spitzer, who headed up the construction of DSM-III, acknowledged he knew of no such evidence apart from the few disorders I cited above. They regarded phobias as unconscious representations of hidden childhood traumas, and they were convinced by this theory that eliminating the phobia would precipitate a psychosis.

Genetics and mental health 105

Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Dialectical Behavior Therapy 105

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

Poverty and mental health 145

Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain 145

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder. How can mental and emotional suffering be approached in a more constructive manner?

Construction 145

Construction Self-awareness Childhood trauma Education 145

Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound.

Construction 52

Construction Childhood trauma Education 52

Mad in America

MARCH 1, 2024

Over the years I’ve worked to welcome them into the family one by one, understanding and loving them as best I can, and making them feel more at ease in this outer world rather than the inner construct they built to protect themselves. Each one wanted to be valued and validated for herself.

Aging and mental health 110

Aging and mental health Childhood trauma Construction 110

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.

Self-awareness 138

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 138

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right? The Morlok sisters experienced really unspeakable childhood traumas, including molestation, incest, and female mutilation, as adults, they experienced multiple sexual assaults. We white folks are racially marked, too. Natarajan: Yes.

Trauma and the brain 142

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 142