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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

However, more than 20 years later, I stumbled upon that very diagnosis in my patient record, documented during my stay at the nation’s first eating disorders inpatient clinic from the end of 2001 to March of 2002. Later, bipolar disorder took its place. I selected one whose website exuded a sense of bureaucracy.

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Mental Healthcare for Veterans in TriWest States

Solara Mental Health

TriWest has a Behavioral Health Division that encourages veterans to receive care for PTSD, depression, suicide prevention, substance use disorder, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, military sexual trauma, and domestic violence. Behavioral Health services can be authorized by the VA and TriWest for coverage.

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

Mad in America

A recent article by the Adult Autism staff identifies a long list of things which professionals must do (such as turning down invitations to speak at conferences in favour of autistic colleagues, seeing documents as inherently biased if they aren’t written by autistic people, and always challenging people who don’t use identity-first language).

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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. She documents cases where medieval Europeans commissioned dissections not out of scientific curiosity but out of care for their families.