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New Guidelines on How to Accurately Convey ADHD Information

Mad in America

This issue, known in moral philosophy as the ‘fact-value’ distinction is also brought to the fore: differences (by whatever definition considered factual ) are not disorders (as this is a statement of value , not of fact ). Furthermore, a smaller brain is not indicative of a brain condition. S.te.meerman@rug.nl

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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According to legal and clinical definitions of evidence, there is no evidence in company assays. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. If you buy the idea your suicidality on an SSRI is evidence of a bipolar disorder, or your loss of libido, darling, is your depression, you and your doctor become more spell-bound.

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Treating Lawyers with Depression: One Psychologist’s Top 10 Tips

Lawyers with Depression

This is the medical definition of depression. However, this definition fails to capture the experience of what its like to be depressed. I think Paul Simon has described depression best when he wrote: Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me.

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The Long-Disputed Science of Twin Studies

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Psychiatry cites twin studies as the gold standard in support of the discipline’s disputed claim that psychiatric conditions such as depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia are genetically based brain disorders only minimally influenced by environmental factors or “triggers.” Bouchard, Jr., points per year worldwide).

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Ever since 1970 s when the treatment was invented it has shown more or less evidence for several conditions such as eating disorders (Murphy, Straebler, Basden, Cooper, & Fairburn, 2012), bipolar disorders (Swartz, Frank, & Frankel, 2008), PTSD (Markowitz et al., 2015) and borderline personality disorder (A.

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Schizophrenia and Homosexuality: My Experience and Case Studies

Mad in America

In his imagination, he confesses, he has a pretty definite foretaste of female sexual enjoyment in intercourse (p.239). It is based on the definitive biography of Nash by Sylvia Nasar with the same title, but unlike the book the film makes Nash seem to be a heterosexual. He is extremely good-looking, highly educated and rich.