Mad in America

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On top of it, during the last few years, when I spent more time detained in hospital than at home, some of the nurses accused me of “not wanting to get better” and urged the doctors to label me with “personality disorder.” “T he only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” said Edmund Burke.

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Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. The ability to mentalize is a fundamental capacity required in our social environment and impairments may utilise a risk for clinical psychiatric disorders (A. Bateman & Fonagy, 2008).

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