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The Moral World of Personality Disorder Assessment

Mad in America

W hen asked about her behavior during a psychiatric assessment for personality disorders, one patient’s response included this description: It was completely crazy. Professionals assess and diagnose the disorder situated in a patient’s mind so that interventions can be targeted to alleviate the disorder.

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Online Behaviors: New Information Presented at APA Annual Meeting

Psychiatric Times

Research from the 2025 APA Annual Meeting reveals a strong link between borderline personality disorder and problematic internet use, highlighting impulsivity and compulsivity in affected individuals.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

1 With an average attention span of about 6-12 seconds (a range that is optimized in young adults) 3 and a penchant for digital multi-tasking, millennials and Gen Zers are perceived as learning (or preferring to learn) mainly through small bytes of information. 1 Indeed, “active” learning approaches boost retention by 40%.

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The Quiet Crisis in Mental Health: The Medicalization and Deskilling of Psychotherapy

Mad in America

The well-known psychoanalyst Nancy McWilliams argues that while most clinicians can agree that psychotherapy should be informed by research, it cannot be like research, which is an unspoken assumption at the heart of the evidence-based craze. But psychotherapy is notand never will bea one-size-fits-all approach.

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Tardive Dyskinesia: Treat Functional Impairment, Not the AIMS Score

Psychiatric Times

In retrospect, it is not surprising that psychiatry has overlooked, or even become complacent, in completing motor assessments, functional assessments, informed consent discussions, psychoeducation, and comprehensive treatment of TD. Prescribing information. Prescribing information. J Clin Psychiatry. 2017;78(8):1136-1147.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.

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Redemption in Psychiatry

Psychiatric Times

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