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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

Mad in America

And thanks to education and awareness-raising efforts, more people are getting help with their suffering. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. So their educations, and chances for good careers, will suffer. But theres a paradox here: The U.S. Jewett, C F.D.A.s

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Rebecca started seeing a psychiatrist at the age of two and was diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and pediatric bipolar disorder. After suffering horrible abuse, Rebecca died in 2006 from an overdose of psychiatric drugs. She was four years old. The civil case was settled in January of 2011 for $2.5

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Mentalization is an imaginative activity about others or one self, intentional mental states of needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals, purposes and reasons (Channon, Crawford, Orlowska, Parikh, & Thoma, 2014; Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008). Bateman, 2012).