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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

Mad in America

Clinically speaking, early childhood trauma often leads to insecure attachment styles and maladaptive survival strategies. P sychology, mental health, and recovery are often discussed in overly formal language, making the process of healing seem complex and intimidating. This can discourage people from believing in their ability to improve.

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How Do Psychiatry Residents Learn Psychopharmacology?

Psychiatric Times

2 Realizing that, modern medical educators often morph traditional Socratic questioning into the embedding of “audience response questions” (ARS) within formal presentations. Goldberg, MD , Stephen M. andrey_orlov/AdobeStock CLINICAL REFLECTIONS Medical education has traversed an evolving path over the past few decades.

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Depression: Biological or Psychological?

Mad in America

Many people also believe the psychiatric drugs prescribed to treat depression are effective because they correct a verified biological causation for depression, a chemical imbalance in the brain. NIMH regarded depression as a rare, non-recurring disorder, with a very favorable prognosis. It was treated psychologically, not medically.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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You’re Not Crazy

Mad in America

Playing into the ’70s stereotype of how a mentally ill person looks and behaves, I dressed in a harlequin costume and prattled on about how I was a magician who used different colours to work my magic. Date: 13.4.1972 From documents obtained via F.O.I. Some of the residents thought I needed help. It was 1972.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview by a Psychiatrist

Now Psych

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?