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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Three)

Mad in America

17:650 They wrote that the lack of compliance is worst for psychoses, which leads to lack of recovery, relapse and readmissions, and that the patients must understand that the diseases will have health and social consequences if the treatment is not being followed. They are restricted uneducational grants, as their purpose is to buy doctors.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

To facilitate appointments for the expanding number of people seeking behavioral health treatment during the pandemic, the MPS has compiled the following list of psychiatrists with immediate availability. Miller, MD, MS IPNAM Health, LLC 8609 Second Avenue #404B, Silver Spring, MD. Telehealth is available. Out-of-network, self-pay.

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MPS Members Actively Taking New Patients: Appointments Within 1-2 Weeks

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

To facilitate appointments for the expanding number of people seeking behavioral health treatment during the pandemic, the MPS has compiled the following list of psychiatrists with immediate availability. Miller, MD, MS IPNAM Health, LLC 8609 Second Avenue #404B, Silver Spring, MD. Telehealth is available. Out-of-network, self-pay.

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From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice

Mad in America

His research and clinical work focus on Puerto Rican and Latinx populations, ethnic minority identity, psychotherapy, and the social determinants of health. How does clinical technique tie back to a model of the mind or mental health? We would all kind of struggle to articulate what that was.

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Teralyn Sell and Jenn Schmitz: Breaking Out of the Prison of Prescribing and Finding the Freedom of Therapy

Mad in America

Dr. Teralyn Sell is a distinguished expert in Psychology and Brain Health, holding a PhD in Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology. She bridges the gap between traditional mental health care and integrative brain health solutions with formal training in holistic nutrition and biology.