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Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2023

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Universal DBT in Schools Increases Anxiety, Depression, Family Conflict In October, Peter Simons wrote about research asking if dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can actually make kids’ mental health worse. Mental Disorder Has Roots in Trauma and Inequality, Not Biology Allan M.

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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

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F ollowing my recent experience of antidepressant withdrawal and having worked in psychiatry for nearly 20 years as a registered mental health nurse, I now have a very critical view on what good mental health treatment and recovery should look like. Should we still be calling it emotionally unstable personality disorder?

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What Is Beyond a Diagnosis?

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I had been sent to a psychiatrist at Manchester Royal Infirmary after my 2 nd violent mugging; I wasn’t eating or sleeping. My mental health went down fast this time. All those symptoms came back and worse until I was unable to get out of my bedroom, stuck in a world of mental terror. We all have innate wellbeing.

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On Psychotherapeutic Literacy

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However, as a rule, you shouldn’t accept presents from your client, the book asserted. The dreadful physical symptoms of severe depression, including cognitive decline and impaired eyesight, overwhelmed my existence, and I started to keep a naive collection of aspirins and over-the-counter sleep aids for ending my life.

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Brain Stew: An Interview with Myself

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They said I was ‘mentally ill, but not mentally ill enough to be psychotic’ and that I had personality disorders. He said I had all sorts of disorders but ultimately that it would be “difficult for my defense to present a meritorious psychiatric defense.” I sleep OK. I care about others.

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From Freud to Fanon: How Daniel Gaztambide is Redefining Psychoanalytic Practice

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His research and clinical work focus on Puerto Rican and Latinx populations, ethnic minority identity, psychotherapy, and the social determinants of health. How does clinical technique tie back to a model of the mind or mental health? However, when I moved to the U.S., We would all kind of struggle to articulate what that was.