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Criticisms That Establishment Psychiatry Can and Cannot Tolerate

Mad in America

Thus, establishment psychiatry is unthreatened by the idea that trauma and adverse childhood experiences are a cause of emotional suffering and behavioral disturbancesas long as these conditions are medicalized. F or the institutions comprising establishment psychiatry, self-preservation means maintaining legitimacy as a branch of medicine.

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Everything About Us Without Us

Mad in America

T his historical record of Oregons first state hospital, the Oregon State Insane Asylum, from its opening in 1883 until the mid-1950s, will focus on the experiences of patients there. The guiding principle for the hospital during these seven decades, whether recognized or not, was Everything About Us Was Without Us.

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

A new Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner has been installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), based at the Department of Psychiatry. By measuring tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain the OPM-MEG scanner reveals which areas are active during specific tasks.

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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

Department of Psychiatry News

Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again. The work has already been featured in the countrys leading newspaper, El Mercurio.

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Jo Watson Interviews Cathy Wield, Author of “Unshackled Mind”

Mad in America

Jo: Hi Cathy, thanks for joining me to talk about your new book Unshackled Mind: A Doctors Story of Trauma, Liberation and Healing. But within a year of publication, I was back in hospital, relapsed apparently. I went on to write a second book educating the church about stigma. At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve.

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

Daria Bukhman is an educator, health coach and wellbeing expert. Cookies on this website We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you click Accept all cookies well assume that you are happy to receive all cookies and you wont see this message again.

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Implementing PFA/SBT In Public Schools (with BCBA+Teacher Tina Gunn, M.Ed/Helping Teacher Julie Grundy and Alexis Wone, Classroom Teacher)

Behavioral Collective Podcast

District BCBA Tina Gunn and one of the district helping teachers, Julie Grundy have returned with a teacher, Alexis Wone, to chat about their implementation of the PFA and SBT process in a public education setting. She has extensive experience in the district working with special education students.