Construction Definition Personality disorders 
Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
W hen asked about her behavior during a psychiatric assessment for personality disorders, one patient’s response included this description: It was completely crazy. Professionals assess and diagnose the disorder situated in a patient’s mind so that interventions can be targeted to alleviate the disorder.
Mad in America
APRIL 29, 2025
DSM diagnoses are now widely accepted as universal and fixed biomedical disorders by both the general public and most mental health professionals. In reality, however, many of these so-called disorders reflect cultural and socio-political constructions of suffering, particularly specific to the United States.
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Psychiatric Times
JUNE 24, 2025
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.
Psychiatric Times
JUNE 12, 2025
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.
Mad in America
MARCH 19, 2025
Beck: I can definitely relate to that story. Take multiple personality disorder , for example. It surfaced in the 1950s, reached a cultural peak where people were walking into therapy offices claiming to have multiple personalities, and was popularized in films. This is also, by the way, something AI cannot do.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
The conflation of ‘disorder’ with ‘identity’ is helped by the fact that, despite long lists of criteria, psychiatric diagnoses such as ASD and ADHD are ultimately based on subjective judgements (by the clinician) about subjective experiences (of the client), rather than on biomarkers—because there are none.
Association for Psychological Science (APS)
MARCH 20, 2025
In graduate school, I focused largely on the classification of personality disorders. I spent five years at University of Missouri as a postdoc and research professor, where I moved away from studying classification of personality disorders and toward psychopathology more generally. My training is in clinical psychology.
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