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How I Learned to Safely Taper off Psychiatric Drugs, and You Can Too

Mad in America

When tapering off a psychiatric drug, you need realistic information, acknowledgement of the severity of the experience, constructive advice, and hope. Constructive and helpful expertise is the rarest and most valuable commodity when tapering a psychiatric drug.

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The Best Kids’ Books on Mental Health of 2024

Child Mind Intitute

Clinicians at the Child Mind Institute specializing in conditions that include anxiety, depression, and autism reviewed more than 60 titles that were published in 2024 to compile our inaugural annual list of the best kids’ books for mental health. But how appropriate and helpful is the message? Published by Balzer + Bray.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

Ignored by establishment psychiatry, many renowned thinkers have questioned the entire wheel of current consensus reality, concluding that it is an unnatural construction that has dehumanized us. Reported in 2024, a Book Trust survey found that reading enjoyment declines as children progress through primary school.

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

Mad in America

In 2024, a Journal of Clinical Psychology study, “The Equivalence of Psychodynamic Therapy (PDT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Depressive Disorders in Adults: A Meta-Analytic Review,” reported equivalent effectiveness of PDT and CBT.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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New Content From Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2024) Kathleen Schmidt, Gerald J. 2024) Wesley Buckwalter, Ori Friedman Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. 2024) David A. 2024) Eddie Harmon-Jones, Cindy Harmon-Jones Noise Versus Signal: What Can One Conclude When a Classic Finding Fails to Replicate?

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TV Series "Shrinking" S2 — Is Therapy Really Like This? (Part 1)

Zencare

Published on January 2, 2024 by Zencare Team. Episode 6: In a Lonely Place Synopsis: Seans in the hospital after getting into a fight with the construction workers from the neighborhood. Written by David Rothman, LCSW and Allegra Balmadier, Content Manager at Zencare. Welcome to a new blog format!