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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. The obstacles are: 1. the dominance of the biomedical paradigm; 2.

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

Mad in America

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. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at Boston University, in his 2017 book Dostoevsky and The Riddle of the Self , described his writing as: “a vast experimental canvas on which the problem of selfhood is continuously explored over the course of four decades.”

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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2017) Peter P. We highlight theoretical, empirical, and practical reasons why prototype analyses offer an important tool in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research while also addressing the potential for reducing construct bias in research that spans multiple cultural contexts. Verkoeijen, Gabriela V. Koppenol-Gonzalez, Lidia R.

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A Bicultural Māori/European Vision for a Truly Healing Hospital

Mad in America

Further, to loosely quote Linda Smith at a Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress 2017, Even if we remove these systems with the ideal to create new ones, the same minds will perpetuate and replicate the system we were moving away from. In order for the world and our communities to survive, we need to radically adapt our ways.

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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

Real Psychiatry

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound. Epub 2017 Jul 24.

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Having a current comorbid psychiatric disorder was associated with low subjective quality of life, but not with general functioning or objective quality of life (Helles, Gillberg, Gillberg, & Billstedt, 2017). These three constructs are what comprise so-called social competence. Theory of mind, 2.) Emotion recognition and 3.)Executive