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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

The creation of the guidelines began in 2018, when the Dutch research collective ‘Druk & Dwars’ (Wild and Willful) initiated a taskforce for their development. The guidelines are meant to help explain what research on ADHD has actually found, its strengths and limitations, and more accurate ways to express what the classification means.

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The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors?

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Wellesley, M “A Load Of Ballokis” London Review of Books, 23 April 2018. “The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding The Antidepressant Myth”, Basic Books, New York, 2010. The post The Psychiatric Diagnostic Evaluation: Medical Expertise or Smoke And Mirrors? appeared first on Mad In America.

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

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Despite all this, STAR*D’s “nearly 70% recovery” rate has not only been trusted and reported by the mainstream media but taught to psychiatry students, including in the 2018 textbook 50 Studies Every Psychiatrist Should Know. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

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A 2018 paper examined FDA data on adverse drug events (ADEs) and found a rate of over 100,000 serious injuries per year. Foucault believed this concept is faulty because it ignores its cultural background—namely, the construction of an institutionalized education system. “If fold increase in the reports of serious ADEs and a 2.7-fold

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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. Langan-Fox, J.,

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

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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. Neuroqueer Feminism: Turning with Tenderness toward Borderline Personality Disorder. Johnstone, L. & & Boyle, M.,

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018). 2016) and reports a higher (70%) degree of suicidal thoughts (Cassidy, Bradley, Bowen, Wigham, & Rodgers, 2018). These three constructs are what comprise so-called social competence.