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What Is a Sleep Disorder? A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis

Psychiatric Times

A Harmful Dysfunction Analysis Author(s): Jean-Arthur Micoulaud-Franchi, MD, PhD , Christophe Gauld, MD, PhD +2 More Key Takeaways Sleep medicine lacks a structured definition for disorders, complicating diagnosis and classification compared to psychiatry's DSM framework. Mak, MD, FRCPC, DRCPSC, FCPA, FAASM; Charles Choi, MD; Muhammad A.

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A Reflection on “Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance”

Mad in America

They might point the way to helpful treatments but fundamentally they are heuristic constructs rather than definitive descriptions and understandings of clinical problems. Laura does not generalize to the person with chronic mental illness and has a clear chance of ending up homeless or in the hospital.

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

Mad in America

I think we can gain some insight from Jacques Derrida’s work on hospitality. Derrida begins his study with an etymological analysis of the word “hospitality.” To what extent is psychiatric hospitalization a legitimate hospitality for a sick person? ” There are many interesting implications of this paper.

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From Auctions to Moral Treatment

Mad in America

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. The court would order the persons hospitalization. This facility still exists.

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How the Medical Model Corrupted Mennonite Values

Mad in America

The psychiatric hospital where this took place had been founded by Mennonites—a religious order with a strong pacifistic tradition. How was I to square the violent restraint and isolation of a vulnerable patient with the values supposedly espoused by the hospital at its founding? They saw hospitals where the staff carried blackjacks.

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

Mad in America

The diagnostic guidelines we follow are not scripture, and they are definitely not based on unquestionable science. If you are the only doctor on duty in a public hospital with over a hundred patients to be seen in less than 3 hours, the time constraint is understandable. 10 Minutes per Patient?

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Reflections on the RADAR Study

Mad in America

People are often started on them during inpatient hospitalizations and there are many reasons to believe that the dose a person is on at discharge is not the MED. Hospital stays are brief and doses are increased rapidly. At the same time, I anticipate that is difficult to collect the kind of data needed to provide definitive answers.