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A Relationship Imbalance, Not A Chemical Imbalance

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With DSM-III, everything we knew about relationship dynamics was buried under the tidal wave of the pharmaceutical industrial complex.
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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

In contrast to psychiatry's biomedical model, for many psychologists, care begins with listening rather than labelling.
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Depression Caused by Kissing? Psychiatry Hits New Low with Clickbait Fear-Mongering

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Instead of being laughed at, this study is being promoted across outlets like Vice and The Colbert Report.

The AI Who Helped Me Leave

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In quiet desperation, I opened ChatGPT. I didn’t know then that I was about to build the most consistent, emotionally attuned dialogue I’d ever had.
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The Three Ages of Treating Madness: Confinement, Conversation, Chemicals

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There was a time when therapy did something dangerous—it listened. Suffering wasn’t seen as a malfunction, but as a story worth hearing.

Depsychiatrization: Dispelling Harmful, Diagnostical Self-Concepts in Therapy and Community Health Work

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Depsychiatrization is a way of reclaiming the right to be understood through a nonpathologizing, rehumanized lens.

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View the artwork, poetry, and humor galleries and submit your work. Or visit the Arts Corner.A colorful painting of two women, one wearing a hooded jacket and seated on a stool, picking at the hair of one sitting on the floor.Split by Ashley Nightingale

Rebecca Williams from University of Manchester is seeking participants for research on what potential participants want to know about psychedelic-assisted therapies. If you are interested in taking part, please contact  [email protected].
Dr. Morgan Shields of Washington University in St. Louis is conducting research on the experience of people utilizing behavioral health crisis services. They are recruiting people who have direct lived experience as patients/recipients or providers/clinicians and those with indirect experience as loved ones. If interested, take the 5-minute screening survey here.

Please join us on Thursday, June 26, at 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST, 7pm CEST for a special webinar on Recovery Oriented Cognitive Therapy for Psychosis: Living Well w/ Psychosis with Dr. Aaron P. Brinen, hosted by Ron Unger.

A Therapist Navigating Antidepressant Withdrawal: Nelson Lee on the Power of the Present Moment

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Therapist and coach Nelson Lee joins us on the podcast to discuss how he approaches helping clients while navigating the complexities of antidepressant withdrawal.

“Progress Only Occurs when People Make Demands”: Paolo del Vecchio Reflects on a Life...

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Paolo del Vecchio speaks with Leah Harris about his decades of public service at SAMHSA, what worries him most about mental health in today’s America, and where he sees hope in the recovery movement that he helped create.

The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

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Ayurdhi Dhar interviews influential cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer on how metaphors, histories, and social structures contour our experiences of suffering and healing.
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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

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The focus on diseased brains and genes obscures the significance of social and environmental influences.

Two Decades of PSSD: A Life Stolen by Antidepressants

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Our two-year-long collaborative research project suggests that neuroimmune processes and related downstream mechanisms may play a role in PSSD.

Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…

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On the podcast this week we are joined by Kermit Cole who shares his thoughts on how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Kermit, in his experiences of being with people in psychotic states, has seen humor as a moment when a connection can be made. In many ways, this project is bringing Kermit back full circle to his work as a film director, early in his professional career.

EDITOR'S PICK

This explains everything – the mystical power of diagnoses

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"It came up again, this time in Helsingin Sanomat. An article about the significance of a psychiatric diagnosis for a person. I can no longer read this type of article without being provoked, just skimming through it, but that sentence was found as such: “ The autism diagnosis was a relief and brought an explanation for everything . ” I already wrote feedback to the newspaper in question about the previous similar article, I don’t feel like doing it anymore. "

“What do you complain about if your baby is well?” :...

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From shouting and threats to interventions without consent, obstetric violence is a form of gender violence that profoundly impacts postpartum mental health. Dr. Keila Castro proposes ways to heal.

‘Subpatterns’ – a deepening in the theory of attachment

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Often psychological problems and relationship problems originate in childhood and have to do with the attachment pattern you developed as a child. The way your parents dealt with you – whether you received (sufficient) attention and in what way – has been decisive. It can therefore yield a lot to delve into adhesion. This article goes beyond the four well-known adhesion patterns from Bowlby's theory and describes 'subpatterns' with clear characteristics.

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