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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. No one spoke up.

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Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan

Mad in America

Helping widen the definitions of disease is a key part of marketing those pharmaceutical products. Dhar: Is this what inspired you to create the “documentary” for ‘Motivational Deficiency Disorder’ and the April Fool piece in BMJ along with it? A rational medical system would organize the education of their doctors differently.

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

Mad in America

Our goal was that, by the time the DSM-5 was released, the headlines wouldnt call it the definitive manual of psychiatrythey would call it controversial. 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.

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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.