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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. SHOW MORE What is a sleep disorder?

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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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How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter

Mad in America

His interests include understanding the lived experiences of colonized people using phenomenological, psychoanalytic, and decolonial frameworks, LGBTQ issues and psychotherapy for physical health concerns. I had a turbulent childhood, and my first interfacing with the mental health field was as a patient and through psychological testing.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. If you struggle mentally, it does not mean that you are ill. It is psychiatry’s view of what mental problems are and how they arise which in itself is pathological.

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Sexual Sanism: Why Anti-Queer Rhetoric Is a Threat to the Mad, Too

Mad in America

S exual sanism permeates the ways our culture talks about and treats the mentally ill, queer people, and, more broadly, anyone who relates or reacts inappropriately to the world and people around them. Sexual sanism is a label Ive used to describe the ways in which sexuality and sanism are co-constructed in our society.

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Trauma Informed Care – 7 Simple Tips to Success

Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

Have Healthy Trauma Informed Care Routines for Sleeping, Eating, and Work Creating healthy habits will help you to be more productive and focused. The Importance of Regular Sleep Routines Go to bed and get up at regular times. Regular sleep habits help set your circadian rhythms, and can positively affect your hormonal system.

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What’s it Like Day-to-Day in Addiction Treatment Rehab?

Clear Behavioral Health

At Clear Behavioral Health, our addiction treatment rehab uses a multi-faceted approach, tailored to everyone’s needs. The Admission Process: Your First Day Upon arrival, youll have your initial assessment where you are asked varying questions about your background, history of substance abuse, and mental health.