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

Mad in America

Diagnoses of what are referred to in DSM-5 as neurodevelopmental disorders (ADHD and ASD) are presented as a fundamental truth about who you are. The ‘autistic community’ they are referring to means the online autistic community, with all the problems of social control and conformity which online communities involve.

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died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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

Mad in America

At the time, the DSM was commonly referred to as the Bible of Psychiatry. When it was finally published, every major media outlet referred to it as the controversial DSM-5. Karter: Yeah, Cushman references Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Heidegger, but not Van den Berg, as far as I remember. We wanted to change that.

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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.