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ADHD and “Weak Muscle Disorder”

Mad in America

A ttention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a construct codified by the American Psychiatric Association. The construct originally appeared as ADD in the 1980 edition of psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, and it was modified in the 1994 and 2013 editions. Does this construct have validity? My answer is no.

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Self Stolen: How ECT Fried My Brain

Mad in America

Even though I had an A average in college at Colorado State University, I dropped out of CSU in 2013, and having tried over 20 different antidepressants and mood stabilizers since 2011, ECT was recommended to me. I was told that only temporary, minor memory loss was possible, in rare cases, before starting ECT in 2013.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Many of these prominent thinkers—such as Erich Fromm, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Lewis Mumford, Ivan Illich, and E.F.

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How I Learned to Safely Taper off Psychiatric Drugs, and You Can Too

Mad in America

My baseline state on psychiatry’s drugs had become intolerable as early as 2013, causing severe pain, panic attacks, depression, anxiety, weight gain, fatigue, irrational behaviour, and a seemingly infinite supply of physical and psychological ailments.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

A 2013 national survey, issued by the U.S. Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions.

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The Outer Workings of Interacting Minds

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

These bidirectional influences between the team and its individuals add complexity beyond standard individual-centric approaches to cognition but also offer the possibility that psychological scientists will be able to develop more sophisticated accounts of cognition than any of us could possibly have constructed on our own. ” Nancy J.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

INTRODUCTION Background, Aim and Method Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by social communication difficulties and restricted repetitive thinking and behavior (Battle, 2013). For people with a secure attachment these needs are fulfilled together with others (Lipsitz & Markowitz, 2013).