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3 months ago

Racial Trauma, Psychosis, and Double Consciousness

Black distress is frequently misunderstood as psychosis rather than a response to racial trauma.

From Symptoms to Stories: Reframing Mental Health Treatment

The Power Threat Meaning Framework offers an alternative to the biomedical model in psychiatry.

The PTMF reframes mental health struggles as meaningful responses to life's challenges.

A new study found that the PTMF significantly reduced self-harm, restraint, and seclusion in inpatient wards.

Alternative medicine

fromNatural Health News

Challenging the status quo: "America Fooled" by Timothy Scott exposes the myths about antidepressants

Criticism of the chemical imbalance theory in depression and antidepressants raises new questions about mental health treatment.

Life After Release From Mandatory Treatment

A parent's journey through their son's mental illness highlights challenges in diagnosis, treatment communication, and stability in mental health.

The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

William Sargant's brutal psychiatric practices in the 1960s reflect a troubling era in mental health treatment, showcasing inhumane methods used on vulnerable patients.

Overdiagnosis debate should not ignore social causes of mental illness | Letters

Mental health services are struggling with rising demand and an outdated care model that overemphasizes diagnosis over understanding patient backgrounds.

3 months ago

Racial Trauma, Psychosis, and Double Consciousness

Black distress is frequently misunderstood as psychosis rather than a response to racial trauma.

From Symptoms to Stories: Reframing Mental Health Treatment

The Power Threat Meaning Framework offers an alternative to the biomedical model in psychiatry.

The PTMF reframes mental health struggles as meaningful responses to life's challenges.

A new study found that the PTMF significantly reduced self-harm, restraint, and seclusion in inpatient wards.

Alternative medicine

fromNatural Health News

Challenging the status quo: "America Fooled" by Timothy Scott exposes the myths about antidepressants

Criticism of the chemical imbalance theory in depression and antidepressants raises new questions about mental health treatment.

Life After Release From Mandatory Treatment

A parent's journey through their son's mental illness highlights challenges in diagnosis, treatment communication, and stability in mental health.

The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

William Sargant's brutal psychiatric practices in the 1960s reflect a troubling era in mental health treatment, showcasing inhumane methods used on vulnerable patients.

Overdiagnosis debate should not ignore social causes of mental illness | Letters

Mental health services are struggling with rising demand and an outdated care model that overemphasizes diagnosis over understanding patient backgrounds.

A Dark Chapter in Psychiatry: The Lobotomobile

The lobotomobile symbolizes medical enthusiasm's dangers and the need for ethical psychiatric practices.

Women

Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review our bodies in an eye-opening new light

Alternative medicine

5 days ago

A Dark Chapter in Psychiatry: The Lobotomobile

The lobotomobile symbolizes medical enthusiasm's dangers and the need for ethical psychiatric practices.

Women

Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston review our bodies in an eye-opening new light

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fromThe Atlantic

2 weeks ago

How to Define Old Age

Dr. Kiran Rabheru argues against the WHO's proposal to classify 'old age' as a disease, believing it perpetuates ageism and negatively influences perceptions and research about aging.

Mental health

3 weeks ago

Psychoanalysis as a Scientific Discipline

The integration of psychoanalysis with scientific psychiatry is essential to ensure its relevance, especially as postmodernism challenges traditional structures.

Psychology

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I dealt with everyone at a distance': what do Joan Didion's therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's archive now available at NYPL reveals their personal and professional struggles, including insights into addiction and mental health.

fromwww.nytimes.com

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?

Concerns about ADHD diagnosis accuracy and Ritalin's effectiveness led researchers like James Swanson to initiate comprehensive studies on the medication's long-term effects.

The Forensic Psychiatry of Joker: Folie a Deux

The sequel illustrates complex themes of mental illness and responsibility through Fleck's trial and his relationship with Quinzel.

The Success Traps

Success does not equal happiness; gratitude and humility can mitigate the negative impacts of personal achievement.

Psychiatric care in NSW facing collapse' because of poor pay and conditions, court hears as arbitration battle begins

Thomas Dixon, representing the Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation, stated: "Junior doctors are not coming through... because of the dysfunction thatâs become manifest, about overwork and being relatively underpaid."

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fromMail Online

Exorcist reveals the chilling cases that 'prove' the Devil is real

Father Carlos Martins believes his exorcisms prove the Devil's existence, as demonstrated in chilling supernatural encounters.

Women

fromCbsnews