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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

Mad in America

After a tumultuous episode of a hasty suicide attempt, I was promptly referred to a clinical psychology professor at a university in my hometown, who happened to be the senior alumnus of my former therapist. He chuckled and retorted, “You think you have borderline personality disorder? What makes you think that?”

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The TikTokification of Mental Health on Campus

Mad in America

“I feel like other people could have a similar experience where they see it and get almost inspired to do so without realizing what it means.” “Pro-ana” communities, which frame eating disorders like anorexia as positive lifestyles and offer tips for losing weight, also proliferated on Tumblr.

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Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Kids Mental Health Info

. “Dialectical” refers to the issues involved in treating patients with multiple disorders and to the type of thought processes and behavioral styles used in the treatment strategies.

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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.