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We Are Amidst the Age of Behavioral Alchemy

Mad in America

I’m going to introduce to you a new definition of mental health and, in doing so, am going to show that this group is more mentally healthy, for which we should be very concerned. THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities.

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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

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A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

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Psychiatry, Capitalism, and the Industrial Machine

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Children grew up in these settings, learning independence and self-reliance from a young age. Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Healthcare becomes a commodity, as do the patients themselves. However, the industrial revolution brought seismic changes.

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“Impairment: Says Who?”: The Fundamental Question of Mental Health Treatment

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O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required. When is someone impaired in functioning?