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

Mad in America

The same is true of attempts to reframe other diagnostic labels as ‘identities’—including the most contentious, ‘borderline personality disorder’ which, it is suggested, can be ‘destigmatised’ through ‘ neuroqueer feminism ’. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnson, M.

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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, 2012). doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2007.07040636

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Set, Setting, Forgetting: Silence on Abuse in Psychedelic Therapy Histories

Mad in America

In a 2019 civil suit brought against MAPS phase II therapists, Yensen invoked stereotypes of borderline personality disorder, saying the participant had a history of certain psychological problems and was “a forceful and skilled manipulator. In 2014, Philip Wolfson interviewed Yensen about Roquet.