Mad in America

JULY 29, 2024

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.

Trauma and the brain 144

Trauma and the brain Construction Education Eating disorders 144

Mad in America

MARCH 11, 2024

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died for me between my eighth and 13th birthdays…Innocence, trust, joy – all were trampled on and diminished in that outdated, snobbish, vicious little world that English high society constructed and endorsed, handed over to the care of people who could be very dangerous indeed.’

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Eating disorders Construction Legal Education 120

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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.

Genetics and mental health 139

Genetics and mental health Aging and mental health Trauma and the brain Mental health advocacy 139

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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