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Biomedical psychiatry is a pseudoscience

Critical Psychiatry

Scientific knowledge is seen as the most respectable form of knowledge (see eg. last post ). It is based on the scientific method of reasoning about observations to develop hypotheses which can be tested. Biomedical psychiatry claims primary mental illness is brain disease, or at least that brain abnormalities are a factor in its cause. Mental illness of course shows through the brain.

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How Creativity and Flexibility in Therapy Changed My Healing Journey

Mad in America

Content warning: suicide, self-harm T his year, I hit a milestone I hardly ever thought I would achieve. After spending eight years in therapy, largely for frequent self-harm and thoughts of suicide, I was ready to see my therapist only once a month. It was the result of a lot of hard work, and the payoff was tremendous. I want to share how crucial a flexible and creative approach to therapy proved to my healing, as well as how sticking to the same course of treatment for several years proved to

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Professional ice hockey: Depressive symptoms and burnout linked to more concussions

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

Elite ice hockey players with a history of concussion report heightened mental health symptoms, according to a new study.

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Depression: Dysfunction of neurons in the amygdala may be behind negative perceptions of the environment

Psychiatry News -- Science Daily

One of the characteristics of depression is a tendency to perceive sensory stimuli and everyday situations in an excessively negative way. But the mechanisms underpinning this 'negativity bias,' which can fuel the development of depressive symptoms, had previously remained largely unknown. To shed light on the question, scientists decided to explore the amygdala and observe how it functions during depressive episodes.

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