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 12, 2025
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Mad in America
MAY 29, 2025
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. 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.
Mad in America
MAY 12, 2025
A third example includes the historical diagnosis of Masochistic Personality Disorder specifically applied to women who remained in abusive relationships, a sleight of hand which again involves blaming the victim, rather than placing the problem within the perpetrator, or even the system that enables it (Herman, 1997).
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.
Mad in America
AUGUST 5, 2024
Just as there are autistic persons, so there are schizophrenic ones whose experiences of distress are actually ‘… a natural way for schizophrenic persons to develop and perhaps respond to their environment’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Frazer-Carroll, M.
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