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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

Mad in America

A legal guardian and conservator have hijacked her father’s life and estate and she cannot get him out. My friend, who I will call Lilly to protect her and her family, is amidst a legal battle with her sibling and a cabal of lawyers over the legal guardianship and conservatorship of her 74-year-old father, though he can still make decisions.

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Eleanor Maccoby, PhD (1917-2018): Early Pioneer in Gender Studies and Child Development

Anxiety & Depression Association of America

In this blog, learn about Eleanore Maccoby, PhD, whose ground-breaking research on child development and gender studies effected various legal and social policies regarding children in divorcing families.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

In 2018, the U.K. Hotz: I found the first mention of social prescribing during my qualitative exploration of loneliness in 2018. And it was through them that I heard about social prescribing, which back in 2018 was very, very hush-hush. established a Minister of Loneliness, which intrigued me. Where did this term even come up?

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Interpersonal Caring as an Act of Resistance Among Socially Marginalized

Mad in America

For these residents, their ART booklet, provided by the local ART center is their only legal identity, which makes availing of any form of government mandated “care” other than their dose of antiretroviral medication difficult, as all such facilities now require possessing a national identity document (the AADHAR card). and Trundle, C.

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Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair

Mad in America

The project emerged in a specific geographical and historical context: between 2018-2021, a Royal Commission was convened to examine the Mental Health System in Victoria, Australia. The Not Before Time: Lived Experience Led Justice and Repair project endeavoured to address such questions.

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Dramatic Rise in Police Interventions on 988 Callers

Mad in America

But in the psychiatric hospital, she said, “It’s like I was a rat, or a gnat… I don’t think it mattered to them whether I lived or died, beyond their own legal liability.” With disturbing, visceral imagery, Elle described her experiences of sexual assault as being treated like an animal “valued” only for its “meat.”

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

He has worked with drug addicts for decades, and, like other psychiatrists who have experience with both legal and illegal drugs, 135 he says that it is generally much easier to stop heroin than to stop a benzodiazepine or an SSRI because the abstinence symptoms with heroin disappear rather quickly.