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Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Is It Time for a New Approach to Emotional Suffering?

The DSM enables diagnosis, access to care, accommodations, and research consistency while sometimes pathologizing ordinary human emotions that lack clear brain abnormalities.
Mental health
fromFortune
1 month ago

The high cost of letting our jobs and our diagnoses define us | Fortune

When labels and diagnoses define people, they restrict identity and contribute to worsening mental, physical, and spiritual health.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Can Psychiatric Diagnoses Be Snap Judgments?

Psychiatry shifted from viewing distress as temporary 'reactions' to chronic 'disorders,' promoting lifelong medication and disease management over cure.
Public health
fromThe Nation
2 months ago

Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.

Public health shifted from collective environmental advocacy to individual-focused medicine, undermining its power and influence.
Artificial intelligence
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

'Clinical-grade AI': a new buzzy AI word that means absolutely nothing

Marketing terms such as "clinical-grade" for AI mental health chatbots borrow medical authority without legal accountability and can mislead consumers about efficacy and regulation.
Mental health
fromAdvocate.com
3 months ago

Walking the tightrope: Being a queer therapist in a system built to erase us

Queer therapists navigate oppressive mental health systems, balancing survival and resistance while creating affirming, transformative care for queer and trans clients.
Philosophy
fromBig Think
3 months ago

Fearing death keeps us from living. 3 experts explain.

Death is more than a medical endpoint; it underpins evolution, shapes psychology and society, and should be reclaimed from medicine's exclusive control.
fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

OCD: Nature vs. Nurture?

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), once mischaracterized as demonic possession, is recognized today as a multifaceted psychiatric disorder affecting an estimated 2 percent of the population.
Mental health
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