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Exploding Myths About Schizophrenia: An Interview with Courtenay Harding

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The recipient of many honors, she received the Alexander Gralnick Research Investigator Award from the American Psychological Foundation for “exceptional contributions to the study of schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses and for mentoring a new generation of researchers.” ” This interview was conducted by email.

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Everything About Us Without Us

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And therein is a critical lesson for todays mental health system, and how it should strive to ensure that everything about us is with us, not without us. 1921 Survey This survey was commissioned because of dissatisfaction with how the mentally ill were being handled, and to plan for future need.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Court documents revealed that, in 1999, two such US psychiatrists, Charles Nemeroff and Alan Schatzberg, published a psychiatry textbook that was ghostwritten by GlaxoSmithKline. If we lose the leading psychologists, there is little hope for the patients who would then need to consult therapists with lesser educations.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

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However, it is documented that ‘unblinding’ in these trials is common.** Ameliorating factors like oxidative stress, neuro-inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction with such interventions may have ‘neuroprotective’ effects, as well more general health benefits. So what is there to lose?

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

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BetterHelp and its competitors suggest they are the answer to a pressing societal mental health crisis. As a result, people are seeking mental health care at unprecedented rates, leaving many professionals too full to accept new patients, and creating an opening for new platforms.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

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His work spans everything from the cultural history of mental illness to mindfulness, death anxiety, and resiliencenot the hollow kind that comes from pretending everythings fine, but the kind that comes from staring into the void and refusing to flinch. On a personal note, Brent has played a foundational role in my own journey.