Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

Conversation analysis highlights not only what is said but how it is said and how meanings are constructed collaboratively. The dissertation is mainly based on the conversation analysis method, which examines interaction turn-by-turn in great detail. I also applied a theory of frame analysis by the famous sociologist Erving Goffman.

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Mad in America

APRIL 5, 2025

They might point the way to helpful treatments but fundamentally they are heuristic constructs rather than definitive descriptions and understandings of clinical problems. The only way to mitigate this is to be very clear from the outset that psychiatric diagnoses are labels that are intended to serve certain purposes.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Specifically, how organisations and individuals can constructively and collaboratively contribute to advancing the rights set out in United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,’ Mr Farrelly said. ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Irish Orgs.

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Our reality is social constructed by active shifting of moving and multiple points of view reinforced by social perspective-taking (see eg. The way in which the so-called human machine is constructed as viewed by natural science does not completely control and constrain human behaviour. another previous post ).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Bottom Line DSM is a social construction, based on ‘pragmatism’ much more so than science. Use DSM administratively, not for best clinical practice.” ” Article → Back to Around the Web The post Why the DSM Is Mostly False | Nassir Ghaemi, MD appeared first on Mad In America.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

How can mental and emotional suffering be approached in a more constructive manner? Often, in order to research these resources one has to first have epistemological knowledge – to understand how knowledge is constructed socially with power relations being in-built into the concepts. The answer lies in the psychosocial approach.

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Mad in America

MAY 18, 2025

I got more and more enthusiastic about the idea of contributing to construct something in Portugal, because in Portugal theres really a void in alternatives to psychiatry. In addition, he was inspired by Mad in America founder Robert Whitakers books and the impact he saw Mad in America having in the United States.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 20, 2025

But HiTOP was built using the DSM constructs. In order to truly get away from the DSM constructs and start from scratch, Forbes used individual symptoms as the building blocks. I think that it speaks to the robustness of those dimensions as organizing constructs to help us understand peoples symptom presentations.

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Mad in America

MAY 27, 2025

Not the ego as arrogance, but the ego as boundary, as survival strategy, as the constructed concept of self. The moon board I chose to share from this process is the one I created during the Pink Moon, a full moon often linked with themes of nurturing and renewal. For me, it was mapped to Jungs concept of ego. It was confronting.

Trauma and the brain 79

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Mad in America

MAY 30, 2024

The psychiatric diagnosis is a medical theoretical construct with limited epistemic validity. They come from knowledge acquired through education and experience, personal aptitude, relational skills and a genuine desire to contribute constructively to the individual. We must start taking people’s own experiences seriously.

Sleep and mental health 135

Sleep and mental health Healthcare Construction Self-awareness 135

Critical Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In fact a psychiatric diagnosis is an unobservable, hypothetical construct. The problem is that it is too easy to assume a diagnostic concept is an entity of some kind, which then acts as a justification for treatment. It is more an idealised description of those aspects of psychiatric presentation that are of interest.

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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. Ultimately, when DSM-5 was published in 2013, the manual retained the descriptive stance adopted for DSM-III, which had ducked specifying any biological causation for the disorders.

Genetics and mental health 112

Genetics and mental health Neurotransmitters and mental health Trauma and the brain Dialectical Behavior Therapy 112

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Psychologist Jonathan Haidt cofounded the Heterodox Academy , whose mission, by welcoming both liberals and conservatives, is to advance open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement across higher education.

Poverty and mental health 116

Poverty and mental health Sleep and mental health Construction Education 116

Mad in America

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As I was saying, I have an education background in Aerospace Engineering and Construction Management. I couldn’t word-find, and would lose track of what I had just been talking about, trying to think of a word as simple as “coffee.” I clean houses now and do senior caregiving. New memories still don’t stick all that well.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Bipolar disorder Construction Education 145

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

This is the idea behind psychotherapy: to provide a safe setting in which those issues can be resolved in a new and constructive manner. These new ways of being should, ideally, translate to other areas of one’s life and help them to relate to the world more constructively.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

JUNE 18, 2025

convention, APS Fellow Elizabeth Kensinger shared her work on emotional memory, emphasizing how the brain constructs, stores, and retrieves emotionally charged experiences. Emotional Memory In the opening keynote address at the Washington, D.C.

Sleep and mental health 52

Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health Construction Technology 52

Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

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.

Genetics and mental health 131

Genetics and mental health Healthcare Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 131

Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

This tree was constructed looking at 12 exons (8,080 base pairs (bp) and 4 introns (3029 bp). Each cladogram is constructed with Bayesian analysis generating the respective bootstrap values from Markov chain analysis and posterior probabilities (see legend for location). They were sequences in 30 of the 34 Canid species.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Economic systems are portrayed as natural laws, rather than human constructs that could be reimagined. Capitalism, for instance, is often defended as the pinnacle of human progress, despite its deep flaws.

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Aging and mental health Construction Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 106

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

Poverty and mental health 145

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

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A healing hospital would adopt philosophies and principles of design, construction, material use, energy and water use, regeneration of the natural environment and all other measures that protect and heal our biosphere. In order for the world and our communities to survive, we need to radically adapt our ways.

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Hospitality Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Construction 92

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Healthy personal boundaries need to be taught or role-modelled during childhood, but can still be built and constructed in later life, through healing trauma. . ‘We have seen that early life experiences determine whether we have healthy, compromised, or non-existent personal boundaries as adults.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The usefulness of this construct is almost never questioned by the mainstream, taken as fact because “experts” deem it so. According to psychiatrists, the suicidal person is suffering from a sickness of the mind: their “mental illness” is making them a threat to themselves! Pesky “mental illness.”

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Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health Construction Legal 142

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.

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Mad in America

MARCH 23, 2024

When we understand that our issues are not caused by an illness, we open the door to construct new meanings. What unites survivors is the search to rethink what was placed on them by psychiatry, and in many cases, the experience of a process of demedicalizing their own suffering, through critical reflection on their own history.

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Psychiatric Times

JUNE 12, 2025

Let us here consider 4 relevant tenets to adult learning 1 : Adults do not want answers to questions they have not asked Adults do not argue with their own data* Learning has not taken place until behavior has changed Adults will increase their behavior after 1 exposure to materials if they are already doing that behavior, but it takes 3 exposures (..)

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Education Neurotransmitters and mental health Sleep and mental health Bipolar disorder 69

Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Conversely, compromised or non-existent personal boundaries are also [de]constructed early in life, due to abuses, neglect, lack of role-modelling, or inappropriate caregiving styles and techniques of all kinds. ‘The word boundaries is widely used in psychology and somatic psychotherapy, but its meaning is often unclear.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Yet rather than engage with this, the authors strategically construct arguments as though they are unaware of any such issue. It is unlikely that evidence of harm from psychiatric treatments or financial conflicts of interest among psychiatric researchers are unknown to the letter authors.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Psychiatry’s aura of superiority may be what enabled it to convince people that mental illnesses are real physical illnesses, even though they’re opposites: First psychiatry constructed a fantasy about emotional distress being a medically-treatable disease caused by a chemical imbalance or brain anomaly.Then it turned it into a reality (..)

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 29, 2025

That could look different for each protocol all based on the research question and the constructs of interest. Again, this gets back to what construct you’re measuring, but really also what question you’re trying to ask. Those are all caveats that you should have in your head when choosing the response format. [00:15:03.060]

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Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

Genetics and mental health 132

Genetics and mental health Poverty and mental health Resilience and coping Healthcare 132

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 24, 2025

A few themes were constructed from the teams analysis. Thalmayer brought her perspective as someone who has years of expertise researching Namibian cultures, but also as a cultural outsider and as someone who raised stepchildren through young adulthood herself.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Sounds like I am doing a Jordan Peterson here, but the whole exercise is about making small, consistent and constructive changes that will become regular habits. These habits above are achievable habits, and will create a constructive mindset. Make your bed, clean your kitchen, your room, and your house every day.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 29, 2025

View past presidential columns Laura Gwilliams’s research has focused on determining the brain regions involved in the processes underlying speech comprehension, from the decoding of acoustic signals to the construction of high-level aspects of meaning.

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Dr. Sagnik Mukherjee Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Emotional regulation is not about suppressing feelings; its about understanding them, responding thoughtfully, and using them constructively. Instead, focus on constructive coping strategies such as: Physical Activity: Exercise releases endorphins, which improve mood and reduce stress.

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Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

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