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Conveying Hope, Empowering Teens: An Interview With Jessica Schleider

Mad in America

Schleider : Absolutely, and it’s a term that even most clinical psychologists aren’t familiar with, so I’m more than happy to share a definition. Because I had intentionally tried something that I had talked about in a group therapy session before that was really, really hard for me—that I hadn’t had in years.

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Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

Mad in America

She did feel the diagnosis was a fit at first: She definitely wound up in many conflicts, she felt an emptiness inside, she did tend to feel abandoned and therefore preemptively reject others, but at the same time she felt a strong need for closeness, she did engage in frequent casual sex with men, she did engage in self-harmful practices.