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How I Developed a Critical Perspective on Psychiatry

Mad in America

I can think of many examples throughout my early career where I saw many people admitted to psychiatric wards having suffered an adverse life event, recent or past trauma, only to leave with prescriptions for multiple drugs to treat their new presumed diagnoses.

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

Mad in America

We remind readers that we wholeheartedly respect and uphold people’s personal right to describe their difficulties and differences in any way they find helpful (although we argue that clinicians do have a duty to use concepts that are in conventional terms evidence-based). The series is being archived here.

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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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Could IPT Be a Treatment Option for Autism?

International Society for Interpersonal Psychother

ASD is also associated with difficulties with central coherence, a disability that costs a lot of energy in the persons daily life. Individuals with ASD possess difficulties in self-understanding or theory of own mind as well as theory of mind about others (Robinson, 2018).