Clinical Philosophy
JULY 1, 2019
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.
Society of Clinical Psychology
JULY 30, 2018
Within days after receiving my master’s-level license to practice psychotherapy in Michigan, two acquaintances asked me to write them letters which they could use in order to obtain an emotional support animal (ESA). ESAs are quite different from service animals, which perform specific tasks for their handlers.
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Society of Clinical Psychology
MARCH 31, 2017
Although originally expected to reduce social stigma and blame, many biological messages about psychiatric disorders like depression have had the opposite effect (Haslam & Kvaale, 2015; Lebowitz, 2014). World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association , 13 (1), 36–38. Weinberger, D. R., & Goldberg, T.
Clinical Philosophy
JANUARY 31, 2021
In a paper on whether psychotherapy is a form of prostitution, philosopher Rupert Read suggests that therapy is to genuine loving friendship (‘agape’) as prostitution is to erotic love (‘eros’). Is psychotherapy, too, not a more subtle selling of such a fantasy? Gaita is a 17 year old ward assistant in a psychiatric hospital.
Beautiful Voyager
JANUARY 28, 2024
I was definitely going to a psychiatric hospital, particularly since this was a weekend and my regular outpatient care team wasn’t available. Part 2: Orientation I’d been in a psychiatric hospital before, almost a year ago to the day. Schizophrenia? The woman did finally find her boyfriend, at another psychiatric hospital.)
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