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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

Mad in America

Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder. How can mental and emotional suffering be approached in a more constructive manner?

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Dostoevsky: A Psychologist We Can All Learn From

Mad in America

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.

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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th gradeā€¦.

Real Psychiatry

All I can remember about it today is frog dissections, the genetics of taste testing and tongue rolling, and the idea that race was a social construct that had nothing to do with biology. Thats right the social construct bomb was dropped in the middle of the Great White North in 1965 and it did not make a sound.