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The Trauma Craze: How the Expansion of Trauma Diagnoses Fueled Victimhood Culture

Mad in America

While expanding trauma criteria is often justified as necessary for inclusivity and compassion, critics contend that these expansions may be driven, by some, out of self-interest. Life expectancy has increased globally due to advancements in medical technology, better hygiene, and improved access to healthcare.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

However, the problem of smartphones is in some ways particularly emblematic of the perverse dynamics of our technological society. Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. The parallel society] began in spontaneous acts of mutual self-defense in different parts of society.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

They recognized that uncovering the root of our dehumanizing society meant going beyond conventional left or right political critiques to more profound cultural reasons, which include a societal embrace of unlimited economic growth, the worship of technology and speed, a departure from human scale, and the increasing institutionalization of society.

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The Psychiatric Peddlers in Your Schools

Mad in America

Why, she can send an email home to John boy’s parents—make them aware of his deficits. And Miss Brown will not be made aware of this until the day of. He rattles on about statistics, techniques, “behavioral interventions” and other technologies that show “statistically significant” effects in modifying student and adolescent behavior.

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Toxic Interactions: Social Circumstances and Well-Being

Mad in America

Every doctoral student discovers this, and, equally, discovers that their success is going to depend upon becoming deeply immersed in the details of what is already agreed within their chosen, narrow, self-contained field of study. The result is a set of findings which have yet to find a satisfactory explanation.

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Depression as a Loss of Heart

Lawyers with Depression

Specific losses may be involved: loss of a loved one, a career, cherished illusions, material possessions, or self-esteem. Because everything is constantly changing, no continuous, solid self can be found or experienced. GRIEF & DEFEAT Loss of heart arises from a basic sense of grief and defeat.

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Dr. Gordon Warme: The Curious Case of an Unconventional Psychiatrist

Mad in America

In 2017, he wrote a Mad in America blog, “What if the Folly Is in Us, Too?” I had to re familiarize myself with his work, reading his self-published paperback Brain Evangelists. Gordon Warme was kind of an endangered species, since many psych-professionals today peddle cures and new technologies. Those endeavours became Bay St.