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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

Mad in America

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. The definition important tasks shows that the question is about something that should be taken seriously.

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IEP Tips From An Education Lawyer And IEP Advocate (with Associate Attorney Alexandra Rosenblatt and BCBA Annie McLaughlin)

Behavioral Collective Podcast

She’s also looking for Annie’s expertise to provide recommendations because that’s what she relies upon with her legal work Annie is the one that provides the recommendations and Alexandra provides the legal arguments Is it common for families to have an IEP advocate and/or an education lawyer? [5:20]

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

Mad in America

Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. I continue to do these studies beating on this drum that self-reporting conflicts of interest doesn’t work. Cosgrove: Definitely.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. As a result, there is no easy or definitive way of resisting the expansion of the number of people said to be neurodivergent. The consequences of ‘diagnosis as identity.’

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

Mad in America

Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. One of the strongest precursors for violence against self or others is akathisia. 10 Keller et al. Keller et al.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The current approach to suicide prevention and supporting people in distress in Australia is a system of failure: the current approach is dominated by influential organisations and self-anointed mental health experts who work aggressively to perpetuate an unhelpful over-medicalised approach to distress.

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

The new drug application for MDMA-AT submitted by MAPS would have allowed MDMA legal use solely within MAPS’ proprietary psychotherapy protocol and only for individuals with a PTSD diagnosis. Yensens wife, Donna Dryer, continued to treat the participant while aware of her husbands exploitation of the participant.