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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

He had multiple hospitalizations for psychotic and manic decompensations in his 20s, but he has done well over the past 10 years, which you attribute both to his medication adherence and minimal psychosocial stressors. Teva Pharmaceuticals; 2025. On the other hand, Ms Robbins had a much lower score. J Clin Psychiatry.

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Is Dialogue the Best Medicine? A Conversation With Jaakko Seikkula

Mad in America

Jaakko is a psychologist who helped develop the Open Dialogue practice at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland, in the 1990s, and he is the person who has conducted the research that told of remarkable longer-term outcomes with this form of care. Was that developed at Keropudas Hospital? W elcome to MIA Radio.

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Chemically Imbalanced: Joanna Moncrieff on the Making and Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth

Mad in America

Whitaker: So now you go out and you’re in the asylum or mental hospital. Moncrieff: I was aware when I was still a fairly junior trainee psychiatrist that there were other people who were similarly critical of the mainstream medical model. The context of their life. Moncrieff: Yes. Moncrieff: Absolutely not.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

You have a self-esteem scaleif I score a 10 and you score an 8, does that mean I have more self-esteem than you? One of the books we read together was Charles Taylors Sources of the Self , which is a landmark in hermeneutic thought. Over time, what it means to be a self has shifted dramatically. Can you quantify justice?

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. What he did in this experiment was he sent ordinary people to mental hospitals and they said they were hearing words like thud, etc. We don’t know.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

And resulted in “ better 2-year outcomes for patients with newly diagnosed schizophrenia spectrum psychoses,” when compared with hospital based treatment. A more collaborative approach, with greater scope for the client’s self-determination about their care, is more likely to build trust than the coercive approach services often take.

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

Mad in America

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. or they might react with “Help!” or “Leave me alone, there is nothing wrong with me.”.