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Introducing the Borderline Personality Disorder Inventory

Psychiatric Times

A Tool for the Clinician's Desk Unlike many tools that are rooted solely in DSM symptom clusters or factor-analytic models, the BPD-I™ was constructed from a clinical standpoint, drawing upon the extensive psychodynamic literature on BPD.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

Gazzellone, MD, FRCPC Over the past 30 years, the structured definition of medical disease has largely centered on the HDA developed by Jerome Wakefield for mental disorders in 1992. 7 According to the HDA, only dysfunctions that cause significant harm are considered disorders.

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

For them, it’s something intrinsic to a person waiting to be discovered and identified, not a social construct created by a committee of psychiatrists. In her view, generational trauma, addictions, eating disorders and family violence are all caused by ‘our ancestors not knowing who they are’. I see and hear.

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Surprising Ways CBT Therapy Helps Women Overcome Challenges

Lightwork

Research shows that women experience higher rates of anxiety , depression , and eating disorders – conditions that respond particularly well to CBT approaches. Benefits of CBT Therapy for Women CBT therapy offers powerful tools specifically designed to address women’s unique mental health challenges.

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

This is connected with what you wrote, which is that psychiatric concepts and categories bear the traces of their colonial origins and reflect current structural inequities maintained by constructs of race and ethnicity. But you’re also helping to reveal the larger narratives that we’re all embedded in.

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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

structural equation modeling [SEM]) and factor-score representations of hierarchical psychopathology constructs in criterion validity analyses. Sleep problems commonly co-occur alongside generalized and social anxiety, depression, and eating disorders in young people. Magson, Ella Oar, et al.