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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

If parents who sent their sons to the school in 1974 had been told that such abuse was a normal and acceptable part of the education their children were to receive, all but the cruellest of parents, I wager, would have removed their sons immediately. But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. He saw me in distress.

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Dear Mr. Kennedy

ADDitude

This wider net, along with improved education, training, and symptom recognition , particularly in historically overlooked girls and women, account for much of the diagnostic uptick, according to studies. The risk of eating disorders comorbid with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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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.,