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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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It’s tragic that these people may then be wrongly labelled as personality disordered, bipolar, or psychotic. A person may come into hospital on no drugs at all, only to leave with several psychiatric drugs, often causing adverse side effects which leads to more prescriptions to counteract the side effects.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

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Clients should be well aware of the responsible boundaries separating them from their therapist. However, as a rule, you shouldn’t accept presents from your client, the book asserted. Trends in Diagnosis One day, I mustered the courage to ask him if my assumption that I might have borderline personality disorder was accurate.

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Medical Journals Refuse to Retract Fraudulent Trial Reports That Omitted Suicidal Events in Children

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These harms increase the risk of suicide and violence, but the published article did not present any such data. Taking the two studies together, adverse events definitely predisposing to violence against self or others leading to discontinuation occurred in 11 versus 3 children. 10 Keller et al. Keller et al.

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TIFT #113: Guilt and Responsibility

How Psychiatry Works

Once operational, it provides internal self-regulation by producing emotions of pride and guilt according to positive and negative judgments made in the light of internal values. On the other hand, such strategies require a major added degree of self-sacrifice and self-denial. Humans are immensely social animals.

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Borderline Personality Disorder: Overview by a Psychiatrist

Now Psych

Brief overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a mental health condition that causes significant instability in emotions, behavior, relationships, and self-image. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? How Common is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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We consider the consequences of diagnosis as a form of social identity; of neurodivergence as a form of disability; and of self-diagnosis. The re-framing of diagnosis as identity in some parts of the neurodiversity movement leads to an insistence on identity-first language—an ‘autistic person’ rather than ‘a person with autism.’

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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

Further, up to 85% of individuals with ASD present with alexithymia as well as a general tendency to intellectualize rather than experience and process emotions. ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. Bateman, 2012).