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

Mad in America

Because they cannot see that whiteness is also a construction, right? In some of your other interviews I’ve heard you refer to the Morlok sisters’ home as a “ pathogenic home ,” and it reminded me of Gabor Maté’s work on trauma. We white folks are racially marked, too. Natarajan: Yes.

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

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. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1620732114.