Critical Psychiatry

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Trouble is that people are looking for definitive answers, which is why they latch on the idea that mental health problems may be due to their brain. Its important to try and understand why people have mental health problems because of their experiences, even if the causes cant be proven as such.

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Critical Psychiatry

OCTOBER 22, 2024

External observation is seen as the basis of worthwhile, definite knowledge. Newtonian physics sees existence in terms of cause and effect rather than meaning. Modern science is based on experiment and has a comprehensive, mechanical, rational approach to nature. another previous post ).

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

In practice, however, this broad definition attracts little more than lip service. Chapter 1 of the Guidance , “Rethinking Legislation on Mental Health,” defines mental health, locating its preconditions in the individual’s physical and social environment. Around the world, mental health gets about 2.1%

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Both left and right-wing critiques start from the notion that we are indeed over-medicalising ever more domains of emotional and mental life, arbitrarily expanding the definition of ‘mental disorder’ to capture experiences that weren’t previously considered in medical terms.

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Mad in America

APRIL 22, 2025

The definition important tasks shows that the question is about something that should be taken seriously. She offers two choises: a) that the patient’s attitude toward responsibilities is to just drop out from important tasks if you don’t feel like it or b) that everyone must take responsibility.

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Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the 1998 US/Japan Conference. Genetic and Phenotypic Definition of Laboratory Mice and Rats / What Constitutes an Acceptable Genetic-Phenotypic Definition. PMID: 18439327; PMCID: PMC2643926. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 1999.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It depends,” especially on the definitions used. No single number accurately presents the whole picture of withdrawal. In addition, an online version of behavioral activation therapy (Moodivate) now has a randomized trial showing efficacy equal to an online CBT program.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 29, 2025

The researchers propose an expanded definition of arithmetic fluency to include not only the automatic recall of facts, such as 6 8 = 48, but also noticing and using number relationships to solve problems.

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Critical Psychiatry

JANUARY 23, 2025

another previous post ), however much some people may want to close that debate down and conclude that antidepressants are definitely effective. We have to live with the uncertainty of the ongoing debate about the efficacy of antidepressants (see eg.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This issue, known in moral philosophy as the ‘fact-value’ distinction is also brought to the fore: differences (by whatever definition considered factual ) are not disorders (as this is a statement of value , not of fact ). Furthermore, a smaller brain is not indicative of a brain condition.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 2, 2025

Troubled Oregonians also contended with the absence of a specific definition of madness. The definitions were unclear enough that in a largely misogynistic culture, the standard was applied to women who were traumatized by domestic violence. This laid some of the legal ground work for the use of seclusion and restraint we have now.

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The New York Times -- Mental Health

MARCH 21, 2025

Also: A plea to Congress; an upside-down definition of waste, fraud and abuse. A psychiatrist and a patient respond to an article in Science Times.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

A double standard exists in health care with respect to adherence to science, definitively dividing the care of physical illness from that of mental disorder. There is no mystery as to why NIMH’s medical bias is failing to advance mental health care.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 10, 2025

We were definitely surprised, because there isn’t that much out there, especially in terms of the spatial aspect, Yeung said. After controlling the data, they found that people with strong object imagery were more likely to have severe PTSD symptoms than people with strong spatial imagery.

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Mad in America

JULY 20, 2024

Finn O’Sullivan Relying on this reductive definition of mental health can lead even those attempting to be supportive to miss how their own actions influence others’ wellbeing. “It puts the way you’re handling things on a very linear medical track,” notes Veronica, a recent Sarah Lawrence graduate.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Part of the very point of mad activism, as I see it, is to resist any narrow definitions of “madness.” In presenting this idea, I’m not trying to promote a one-size-fits-all picture of what madness is. Rather, my role as a philosopher is to salvage and give voice to these forgotten visions.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

There are still mild cognitive issues and a feeling that my brain has definitely slowed down. I am becoming re-integrated with the real world. I’m not sure if my brain will ever fully recover from the episodes of psychosis.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MAY 1, 2025

00:04:54.970] – APSs zge Grcanl Fischer Baum Yeah, definitely. 00:06:35.740] – APSs zge Grcanl Fischer Baum Yeah, definitely. Having longitudinal studies in dementia and dementia-related language disorders is definitely a gap in the literature. Talkbank definitely follows those. Why not share the love?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The diagnostic guidelines we follow are not scripture, and they are definitely not based on unquestionable science. The patients themselves will see themselves in a different light and behave accordingly. This treatment, for the most part, has significantly negative consequences. 10 Minutes per Patient?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In other words, the current research shows a link between antidepressants and osteoporosis but cannot definitively say that antidepressants cause osteoporosis. The study’s design means the current work cannot speak to causation.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If I had to go through it all again, I would definitely track my recovery progress. In my case, it looked a bit different; for several years, I felt like there was no improvement at all. It was only later that I started to notice that things were moving in the right direction.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

MARCH 6, 2025

00:03:23.800] – Wen Wei Loh Yeah, I think just like she mentioned, I think life experiences definitely influence some of the work that I’ve done. I’m going to start with a very specific definition. 00:05:07.790] – Dongning Ren I think that’s a very precise definition.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 17, 2025

This is definitely the next step I’m going to take, develop this version with people that are familiar with teaching methods, with teaching statistics to make sure it can be even more of a resource for learning. [00:11:58.000] I think it’s a combination of using all those tools that we have available and also teaching that.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 3, 2025

Theory and practice can be definitely different. I definitely understand your motivation to test children from other cultures. This was one of our inspirations for work that we conducted later on. [00:04:20.390] 00:04:20.390] – APSs zge Grcanl Fischer Baum I think we are on the same boat by that. Yeah, the same story for me, too.

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 14, 2023

At the same time, I anticipate that is difficult to collect the kind of data needed to provide definitive answers. We need to understand more about drug tapering. I look forward to following the ongoing work of Moncrieff’s team.

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Bullet Psych

JANUARY 21, 2024

We will cover an introduction, definitions, diagnostic criteria, risk factors, and treatment. Introduction and Definitions 2 , 3 Circadian rhythm sleep wake disorders (CRSWDs) are a group of disorders characterized by recurrent disruptions in the natural sleep-wake cycle that aligns with the 24-hour circadian rhythm.

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Sane Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

A predisposition for bipolar disorder definitely runs in my family. My maternal grandfather was hospitalised in the 1930s with depression. This is the first documented mental health episode in my family. Then the line runs to me, then from me to my sons.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This will definitely require the psychiatrist having to improve their medical knowledge but also be open to training in nutrition, psychotherapy, body treatments and other ontological enquiries into the nature of Being (e.g., Siloing mental illness to psychiatry is deeply problematic both from a philosophical and a pragmatic point of view.

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College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

She said, ‘I was definitely a lot worse coming out of that hospital stay than I was going into it.’ .’ A 21 year-old with a chronic eating disorder says that she was in and out of hospitals many times before she was 18.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

And there is another essential limiting factor that is part of the definition of LMIC. The tool must be designed by a diverse set of experts with a cross-cultural lens using terminologies and definitions that can be translated into multiple languages. And what about the calibration of scores across instruments?

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This is not addiction, by definition. All of the subjects in Radio Canada’s piece suffered a form of iatrogenesis—prescribed physical dependence—after benzodiazepines were prescribed to them long-term and without informed consent.

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Mad in America

JULY 9, 2024

His next move is to expand upon the paradox of the foreigner by adding the concept of language: “He must ask for hospitality in a language that, by definition, is not his and is imposed upon him by the master of the house… The latter imposes translation into his own language upon the former, and that is the first violence.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 16, 2023

A hospital by definition is based on the medical model. Despite being established by Mennonites, for whom nonviolence was central to their creed for hundreds of years, the medical model made violence acceptable, even considered to be appropriate “treatment.”

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

APRIL 28, 2025

We asked experts what to say in a variety of situationsincluding when you want to accept the apology, when you definitely dont, and when you simply need more time to forgive. If youre on the receiving end of a sorry attempt to make amends, on the other hand, it might feel just as offensive as the original transgression.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 21, 2024

David and I realized there wasn’t a definitive, authoritative book for clinicians on how to stop medications. Because at the moment, there definitely is an aspect of trial and error. The NICE guidelines, which are the government guidelines in England, adopted our approach. We thought we’d write it.

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Zencare

MAY 14, 2025

If it doesnt, definitely check in with your doctor. Definitely. For most women, yes. Once your hormones stabilize (either naturally or with treatment), your memory and clarity tend to bounce back. Can therapy help with menopause symptoms? Therapists can give you tools to handle everything from mood swings to anxiety.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 30, 2024

One of Andrew Feldmar’s definitions of love is that “I could hurt you, but I won’t”. Scottish psychiatrist R. Laing described such actions done for one’s own good as “violence masquerading as love”. If I am hurting you, I do not love you. Before the disaster, we have innocence. Our hearts are open and we trust others.

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