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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

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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

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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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Engaging Voices, Part 1: Validating The Arrival of My Wife’s First ‘Alters’

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Over the years I’ve worked to welcome them into the family one by one, understanding and loving them as best I can, and making them feel more at ease in this outer world rather than the inner construct they built to protect themselves. Each one wanted to be valued and validated for herself.

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The Making of a ‘Madness’ That Hides Our Monsters: An Interview with Audrey Clare Farley

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Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right? The Morlok sisters experienced really unspeakable childhood traumas, including molestation, incest, and female mutilation, as adults, they experienced multiple sexual assaults. We white folks are racially marked, too. Natarajan: Yes.

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The Most Important Thing I Learned in the 8th grade….

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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.