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

Mad in America

It was also accepted that all of us need to learn difficult lessons about how to interact with others, through parental and educational guidance. A great deal of research backs up his statement; it is clear that challenging educational environments are putting all young people under huge pressure. I see and hear.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

If parents who sent their sons to the school in 1974 had been told that such abuse was a normal and acceptable part of the education their children were to receive, all but the cruellest of parents, I wager, would have removed their sons immediately. But she has an eating disorder,’ my mother said. He saw me in distress.

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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. You see this in modern medical education: Gross anatomy where students dissect cadaversis placed at the very beginning of medical school.

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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.