Mad in America
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Most in the taskforce also agreed that the criteria for the ADHD construct to be used are highly subjective and contextually situated and there is a risk of pathologizing normal (or often functional) behavior.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 24, 2024
Then in 2023, Ed Pigott and his co-researchers, utilizing the Restoring Invisible and Abandoned Trials initiative, conducted a reanalysis of STAR*D, which was published in BMJ. The cover of the December 2023 Psychiatric Times issue announced : “STAR*D Dethroned? But What If It’s Broken?”
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Mad in America
OCTOBER 5, 2024
In October 2023 I wrote an article for Mad in America, “Survivors and Families Working Together for Change.” We hope to learn together from this pilot project and use what we have learned to keep constructing more multifamily groups to counter the confusion, blame, shame and loneliness that interferes with the healing power of hope.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Two months after the exchange with the neuroscientist, in January 2023, I began tapering. I am now in my 21st month, withdrawing from the last milligram. Down from 40mg. I have five and a half months to go.) I put faith in my ability to manage whatever came, but I couldn’t.
Mad in America
MARCH 11, 2024
In 2023, a teacher at the boarding school I was sent to was banned from teaching. As for the ‘safeguarding of children and the promotion of their welfare’, psychiatrists and psychotherapists have spoken out for years about the risk of psychological harm in separating an eight-year-old from their parents.
Mad in America
JULY 29, 2024
For them, it’s something intrinsic to a person waiting to be discovered and identified, not a social construct created by a committee of psychiatrists. Have the cultural constructs of 21 st century Western neoliberal society happened upon a universal truth about what it means to be human? Disability and Society, 27(6), 883-887.
Mad in America
JANUARY 17, 2024
His body of work, including the critically acclaimed Toward the Psychological Humanities: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Psychology (Routledge, 2023), offers a profound reimagining of psychology, interweaving it with the arts and humanities to better understand the human condition.
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