Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

A new study found that children exposed in utero to maternal depression actually had better problem-solving abilities than their peers. However, kids whose mothers took antidepressants had impaired fine motor skills. Kids exposed in utero to maternal anxiety were more likely to have difficulty with communication and gross motor skills. This contradicts the accepted wisdom that untreated maternal depression is harmful to children.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

MARCH 14, 2024

The second day of the conference has offered crucial and intriguing themes. The morning featured discussions on how IPC is implemented in various parts of the world, including the development of an app called Engage. Speaking of apps, a workshop on “IPT in the digital world” was conducted, where we reflected on the opportunities presented by social media and how we, in IPT, observe their impact on individuals’ lives.

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Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research (ABMR)

MARCH 13, 2024

Marwah Abdalla , Columbia University Irving Medical Center Jonathan Daniel Agley , Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public Health Sara J. Czaja , Weill Cornell Medicine Shira Ilana Dunsiger , Brown University School of Public Health Carolyn J. Heckman , Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Julianne Holt-Lunstad , Brigham Young University Michael A.

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

MARCH 13, 2024

World Psychiatric Association announces a Travel Award for the winner of its 2024 Medical Student Essay Competition to attend the 24th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry in Mexico City, Mexico The World Psychiatric Association (WPA) has once again launched its much-anticipated Medical Student Essay Competition , a WPA Presidential initiative with the support of the United Nations Secretariat Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development Goals.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Mad in America

MARCH 13, 2024

From Rebecca C. Mandeville, LMFT – Scapegoat Recovery : “What is traumatic invalidation, and why is it important that adult survivors of family scapegoating know about this form of trauma? Traumatic invalidation is when you are constantly having your feelings, your thoughts, your beliefs, your accomplishments invalidated and this (for the family scapegoat) will happen often early in childhood during those critical years when the brain is developing and those neural pathways are conn

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

MARCH 13, 2024

The first day of the IPT conference has come to an end. The morning began with Heather Flynn welcoming everyone and introducing the conference with an opening speech. She expressed gratitude to John Markowitz for his significant contributions over the years. Benjamin Hankin then shared about him and his team’s important research, in memory of Nancy Groth, on expectant mothers and their efforts to prevent mental health issues in both parents and children.

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Lawyers with Depression

MARCH 11, 2024

Dr. Carrie Barron is a board-certified psychiatrist on the Columbia College of Physicians an Surgeons clinical faculty who also has a private practice in New York City. She has published in peer-reviewed journals, won several academic awards, and presented original works related to creativity and self-expression at national meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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Mad in America

MARCH 14, 2024

Owning just one monkey, if it weighs under 30 lbs., is not illegal in Houston where neighbors saw a little gray face peeking through the front room curtains of the guy out on bond since Christmas for a self-defense sort of homicide when his full-grown tiger loped like time itself through the side yard and into the cul-de-sac with cops yelling at the animal as it followed his human into a pick-up truck and drove off.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

MARCH 12, 2024

It’s only a few hours before the 10th ISIPT conference starts at Crown Plaza in Newcastle, England. “Earlier this week, ISIPT hosted several enriching workshops, including sessions on IPSRT, IPT-A, and prenatal depression. On Monday, there was an introductory course on IPT, as well as a full-day session for teachers and supervisors in IPT.

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Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

Editor’s Note: This piece by Charlotte Beale first appeared on our affiliate site, Mad in the UK. O n 10 March, the Mail on Sunday put Charles Spencer’s story about being sexually abused at boarding school on its front page. Spencer is the brother of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Inside the paper were extracts from Spencer’s book, A Very Private School , about his time at Maidwell Hall, where he boarded from eight to 13.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

Editor’s note: This article by Gaurav Datta was first published on Mad in South Asia. Some of the most marginalized and stigmatized people in a community are those with psychiatric diagnoses and those who are HIV positive. What remains common about these two groups are how they are portrayed through a “humanitarian gaze” as helpless, burdensome, and unable to contribute meaningfully—their lives are often reduced to how much they cost (Global Burden of Disease).

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Mad in America

MARCH 12, 2024

E veryone is challenged by the intensity, frequency, and distortedness of their emotion. Some people are more challenged than others. But no matter how problematic it is, emotion is a normal part of being a person. Somewhere in the last few decades, intense emotionality has gone from being a naturally difficult part of you to an unfortunate pathology in you.

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Mad in America

MARCH 15, 2024

A crime that shocked a nation: In sleepy Raurimu, a tiny settlement in New Zealand’s central North Island, the Saturday morning peace was shattered on the 8 th of February, 1997 when a young man from Wellington turned a shotgun onto a group of people staying at his family’s ski and hunting lodge. Six people died that morning and another four were seriously wounded.

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Mad in America

MARCH 9, 2024

From Shaun Attwood : Psychiatrist Bob Johnson, along with his wife Sue Johnson, speaks about his years working in the UK’s prison for its most violent offenders, and how, rather than give his forensic patients drugs, he led them into telling of their traumatic histories, which ultimately ‘cured’ them, allowing them to give up their need for violence.

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