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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

To pre-empt: my thought is that whilst ignoring frames is naive, so is taking "frame" to be a master concept for the interrogation of psychiatric judgement. Psychiatry's social scientific critics, for example, typically suggest we should apprehend their object using concepts such as "suffering", "problems in living", "experience", "belief".

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Am I Going Through a Nervous Breakdown?

Beautiful Voyager

In the past, mental health experts used many terms such as depression, anxiety, and acute stress disorder to refer to a nervous breakdown. The term is no longer used because it has not been recognized as a mental health disorder by the American Psychiatry Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–5).

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Synthesizing Findings on Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors

Society of Clinical Psychology

Although studies varied to some extent in terms of their findings, cognitive flexibility did not appear to be consistently or strongly associated with a history of SITB when researchers accounted for other mental health problems like depression. is a clinical psychologist and faculty in the University of Utah’s department of psychiatry.

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Do Beliefs about Biology Matter for Mental Health?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Imagine that you have just visited a mental health professional and received a diagnosis of depression. The clinician goes on to explain that depression is a brain disease, and that your biological wiring, in combination with sufficient life stress, has led you to become depressed.

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What makes mental illness stigma so hard to change (and also to study)?

Society of Clinical Psychology

Herein lies another major challenge: mental illness is incredibly heterogeneous, encompassing both mild and severe symptoms, and including everything from social anxiety to schizophrenia. Would increasing empathy toward people with depression also increase empathy toward people with anxiety? Psychiatric Services, 62 , 824-826.