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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.

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Predicting Suicide

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

For people with underlying issues, such as eating disorders, treating the disorder may be a better approach than treatments focused specifically on suicide. Most folks are either dying from this condition of eating disorders or theyre dying by suicide, said Robison. Kuja-Halkola, R., Cederlf, M., Hellner, C.,