Mad in America

MARCH 1, 2024

They all have different personalities, ages, abilities, and names: Amy, Tina, Jenny, Sophia, K.A., Over the years I’ve worked to welcome them into the family one by one, understanding and loving them as best I can, and making them feel more at ease in this outer world rather than the inner construct they built to protect themselves.

Childhood trauma 102

Childhood trauma Aging and mental health Construction 102

Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.

Self-awareness 124

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 124

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Her second book, which we will be discussing today, Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America , explores the lives of the four women behind the National Institute of Mental Health’s famous case study of schizophrenia. He sets out to study the genetics of schizophrenia, through twins.

Trauma and the brain 130

Trauma and the brain Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Technology 130