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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. 3, 2006 Reflections of a Survivor by Thurstine Bassett Wounded Leaders by Nick Duffell, Therapy Today, July 2014, Volume 25 Issue 6 Power Threat Meaning Framework: Overview , ‘Surviving separation, institutionalisation and privilege’ (p.70) He saw me in distress.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

16 It is serious, potentially lethal, and associated with elevated risks for comorbid conditions 17, 18 including anxiety, depression, 19 substance use disorder, 20 eating disorders, 21, 22 obesity, and oppositional defiant disorder, 23 which commonly derails treatment plans and parenting strategies. Int J Eat Disord.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

It was a fun thing to do, and we launched it in the British Medical Journal on April 1 st , 2006. A recent real-life example of this kind of advertising was for binge-eating disorder , and Monica Seles was the celebrity they used. Did people believe the existence of this “disease,” motivational deficiency disorder?

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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). Naderer, A.,