Mad in America
APRIL 29, 2025
In reality, however, many of these so-called disorders reflect cultural and socio-political constructions of suffering, particularly specific to the United States. DSM diagnoses are now widely accepted as universal and fixed biomedical disorders by both the general public and most mental health professionals.
Mad in America
MAY 27, 2025
Not the ego as arrogance, but the ego as boundary, as survival strategy, as the constructed concept of self. I was no longer sure where the mask ended and the self began, but I knew I didnt want to return to the old performance. For me, it was mapped to Jungs concept of ego. It was confronting.
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Mad in America
APRIL 22, 2025
Conversation analysis highlights not only what is said but how it is said and how meanings are constructed collaboratively. Understanding these hidden dynamics can facilitate reflection on psychiatric institutions and increase the awareness of the social and cultural factors embedded in mental health assessment.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
How can mental and emotional suffering be approached in a more constructive manner? Often, in order to research these resources one has to first have epistemological knowledge – to understand how knowledge is constructed socially with power relations being in-built into the concepts. The answer lies in the psychosocial approach.
Mad in America
MAY 30, 2024
But I give you access to my professional perspectives and reflections, in the hope and belief that you will be able to use them for increased self-awareness and personal growth. The psychiatric diagnosis is a medical theoretical construct with limited epistemic validity. I don’t change the way you think.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 3, 2024
This is the idea behind psychotherapy: to provide a safe setting in which those issues can be resolved in a new and constructive manner. These new ways of being should, ideally, translate to other areas of one’s life and help them to relate to the world more constructively. Rationally, a person can be aware of this.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.
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