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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. Stahl, MD, PhD, DSc (Hon) Now more than ever, capturing and scaling the ingredients that make for compelling and impactful teaching for trainees is vital to our future. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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

Mad in America

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

Mad in America

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” “T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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

Mad in America

Yet we too rarely discuss the harm that psychiatric treatment does to a persons self-concept and self-narrative. One of the purported positive effects of psychiatric diagnoses is the relief a person may feel when an expert tells them how and why they suffer. And this is sometimes true, at least in the short run.