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you've been framed

Clinical Philosophy

Psychiatry's social scientific critics, for example, typically suggest we should apprehend their object using concepts such as "suffering", "problems in living", "experience", "belief". One way past this problem is to draw a distinction between conceptualisation and framing. One way to do this - and I can't think of any other! -

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MQ announces its biggest ever investment in new research

MQ Mental Health

The 2023 MQ Fellows are: Dr Suhas Ganesh from the Central Institute of Psychiatry Ranchi, in Kanke, India. Suhas will examine genetic and environmental predictors of treatment-emergent metabolic abnormalities in schizophrenia. You can read more about Suhas' work here. Dr Gareth Griffith from the University of Bristol.

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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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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

The ADP continues to improve prevention, detection and early intervention for depression in young people. Most recently, in 2021, MQ advised the new Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HGBI) on their strategy to invest in research into young people’s anxiety and depression.

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What Are The New Government Guidelines For Children’s Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

The ADP continues to improve prevention, detection and early intervention for depression in young people. Most recently, in 2021, MQ advised the new Healthy Brains Global Initiative (HGBI) on their strategy to invest in research into young people’s anxiety and depression.

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How Does Language Affect Our Mental Health?

MQ Mental Health

Just because depression or anxiety disorder are more common doesn’t mean the pain and suffering caused to the individual by their condition means less or matters less. Diagnosis in Psychiatry is not made based on tests, blood tests or even scans. Pain is pain. Misusing the language of mental health is therefore discrimination.