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American Dreams: What’s It Like To Be An MQ Research Fellow In The USA?

MQ Mental Health

At that point in my career, I was experienced enough to know that I needed to shift my focus to achieve greater public health impact – to the area of prevention, where there is tremendous unmet need in psychiatry. All of this is thanks to MQ, and to their investment in me at a critical time in my early career.

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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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The long awaited second edition Psychopharmacology: A mental health professional’s guide to commonly used medications by Herbert Mwebe

The Critical Blog

These medicines have been around for over 5 decades with evidence showing that they help to lessen and improve the severity of psychiatric symptoms in people suffering with a mental illness. The arbiter of whether these medications are useful or not is the person taking the medication.

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just published

Clinical Philosophy

The 8 chapters of section five look holistically at the different life worlds of persons with different conditions (schizophrenia, mood disorders, hysteria, BPD, addictions, autism, eating disorders). Section six entitled ‘Clinical Psychopathology’ contains 9 essays on different aspects of (mainly) psychotic experience.

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Much of her paper is concerned with evaluating the idea that mental disorders are or are not 'in' the individuals diagnosed with them. I want to leave off discussion of philosophical psychiatry's curious use of that preposition for another time; for now the focus shall be on her reading of Laing & Esterson (hereafter: Laing).

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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

boys with adjustment disorders). is a clinical psychologist and faculty in the University of Utah’s department of psychiatry. Her program of research is focused on improving health outcomes for those vulnerable to self-inflicted injury (SII), borderline personality disorder (BPD), and suicide. Kaufman (Ph.D.) Linehan, M.