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Deprescribing Psychiatric Drugs to Reduce Harms and Empower Patients: Interview with Psychiatrist Swapnil Gupta

Mad in America

I moved to the United States in 2009, and when I saw the medication lists, I was quite surprised that the medical lists were so long. These are all constructs. Dhar: I once covered an article on inappropriate medication use and polypharmacy among geriatric patients, with terrifying statistics about adverse drug reactions and mortality.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

This has resulted in some real-time, automated measures of team cognition that would not be possible if examining knowledge at the individual level (Cooke & Gorman, 2009; Gorman, Amazeen, & Cooke, 2010). National memories: Constructing identity in populist times (pp. National memories: Constructing identity in populist times.

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Intent and impact in the brain

Dr. Christianheim Preventative Mental Health

Somewhere inside your vast, complex neural networks, your brain constructs an inner, subjective representation of objective reality. 2009): 127-134. [ii] Annual review of psychology 60 (2009): 693-716. The mind, for instance, is not constrained by the physical limits of the body, it relates to other minds. ii] Adolphs, Ralph.

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

Mad in America

This implies that the construct of ‘schizophrenia’ is, contrary to decades of critique and the admissions of DSM committee members themselves, a reliable and valid way of categorising a certain group of people. Preprint Chapman, R. 2023a) A critique of critical psychiatry. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology , 30, 2, 103-119 Chapman, R.

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

Mad in America

97 Allen Frances, 683 and other prominent figures in the field, including Insel 684 and his predecessor Steven Hyman, 685 acknowledge that the disorders in the DSM manual have never been validated as discrete illnesses, and that the diagnostic categories are constructs.