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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

Author(s): Joseph F. 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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Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’

Lightwork

Healing from Within: Trauma Therapy for Women Who’ve Been Told They’re ‘Too Sensitive’ Have you ever been told that you’re “too sensitive”? The combination of trauma and sensitivity presents unique challenges.

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

Mad in America and Mad in the UK are jointly publishing this four-part series on neurodiversity. This third part of this series on Neurodiversity consists of an essay by a therapist who has asked to remain anonymous for fear of the consequences for their job. The series is being archived here. In Part 1 and Part 2 , we—e.g.

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A Felt Sense of Safety – From Disassociation to Embodiment

Mad in America

A nutrition geek and nature fanatic who loved learning about the healing power of food, I could not wrap my mind around how I needed prescriptions to balance my brain. This was sometime after she had been treated for her eating disorder at a facility in Arizona. Both were eventually diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

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A Therapist’s Perspective on the “Let Them” Theory by Mel Robbins

Zencare

Robbins is well known for her tough love attitude that supports people in their relationships, career, personal development and overall leads to more thriving in their lives. The Let Them theory is generally popular among therapists as a simple phrase to describe the complexity of setting boundaries and prioritizing the self. Lets break it down.

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

Mad in America

Kirmayers scholarship on narrative, metaphor, and cultural psychiatry aligns with ongoing efforts by Indigenous psychologists and anthropologists to reframe trauma and healing through culturally grounded practices, as reflected in recent collaborative work calling for a decolonial turn in psychology.

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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

Mad in America

New Study Finds Connection Between Childhood Trauma and Psychosis In December, Ashley Bobak wrote about a new study which sheds new light on the profound impact of childhood trauma in the development of psychotic symptoms, particularly in treatment-resistant cases of schizophrenia.