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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

This represents a significant shift in PTSD diagnoses from predominantly affecting men in the 1980s, when men constituted about 70% of diagnosed cases, to now predominantly affecting women, who by 2020 made up 70% of diagnosed cases. It is a serious disorder, reflecting the deep psychological scars left by genuine trauma.

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Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS): How the Last Step to Recovery Became the Final Step in Life

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I tapered off citalopram with tapering strips between October 2019 and January 2020. Between April 2020 (last pill) and August (4 months later), I was not that worried yet. On August 8, 2020, I first noticed that something was going wrong in my head. Anniek: Yes indeed! Using self-monitoring forms, I documented my symptoms.

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2025 Election Begins March 1

The Maryland Psychiatric Society

Personal Statement : Dr. Young’s specific areas of clinical interest include treating complex mood disorders, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality disorders, and substance use disorders. He also has a strong interest in sports and performance psychiatry.

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

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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

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice

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He has served as a liaison to the American Psychological Association (APA) on racial and ethnic minority issues and contributed to the APA’s 2020-2021 Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate. We would all kind of struggle to articulate what that was.

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

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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. Clients may be less able to form and assert their will.”