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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

Spencer writes: ‘I am certain that some things died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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Part 3: Neuro-Authenticity, Neuro-Identities, and the Neuro-Industry  

Mad in America

For them, it’s something intrinsic to a person waiting to be discovered and identified, not a social construct created by a committee of psychiatrists. In her view, generational trauma, addictions, eating disorders and family violence are all caused by ‘our ancestors not knowing who they are’. I see and hear.

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The Best Kids’ Books on Mental Health of 2024

Child Mind Intitute

Cranky Written by Phuc Tran, illustrated by Pete Oswald Construction vehicles as characters help build kids’ social-emotional skills in this engaging, multi-layered picture book. My Thoughts Have Wings offers a sweet, memorable image of thoughts nesting in your mind like birds, says a Child Mind Institute expert.

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“All Real Living Is Meeting”: Brent Robbins on Love, Death, and the Possibilities of Psychology

Mad in America

But we know from research that one of the strongest drivers of eating disorders is the thin ideal a cultural standard that equates female attractiveness with thinness. They constructed imagined stories about the persons life, piecing together details based on what they observed during dissection.

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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.