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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

In reality, however, many of these so-called disorders reflect cultural and socio-political constructions of suffering, particularly specific to the United States. While various approaches to treatment are not necessarily bad, overall, it blurs the definition of what psychotherapy is and confuses patients seeking effective care.

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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis Author(s): Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, MD, PhD , Christophe Gauld, MD, PhD +2 More Key Takeaways Sleep medicine lacks a structured definition for disorders, complicating diagnosis and classification compared to psychiatry's DSM framework. Siddiqui, BSc; Shizuka Tomatsu, MD; and Matthew J.

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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

Mad in America

Conversation analysis highlights not only what is said but how it is said and how meanings are constructed collaboratively. The definition important tasks shows that the question is about something that should be taken seriously. I also applied a theory of frame analysis by the famous sociologist Erving Goffman.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

By definition, nobody forgets the details of an experience that creates unforgettable memories. It becomes subject to registration and recall with a greater degree of vivid fidelity and detail than if the same factual content-to-be-learned were paired with no emotionally-laden stimulus.

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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

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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International Team Constructs Definition, Inventory of Questionable Research Practices

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

Now, an international team of researchers has not only proposed an overall definition of QRPs but published a comprehensive list of them—as well as ways to detect and prevent them. Psychological science has struggled to define the questionable research practices (QRPs) that can undermine the integrity of scientific findings.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

Did you find that the patients in any way fit neatly into these different diagnostic constructs? There was always an implication that there was more evidence than there actually was, even if you weren’t explicitly told this has definitely been proven. Moncrieff: Yes. Moncrieff: Absolutely not.