Bipolar Bandit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What inspired you to write the book, Breakdown: A Clinician’s Experience in a Broken System of Emergency Psychiatry , that got published in October of 2018? . Approximately half of people with schizophrenia or bipolar lack awareness of their illness, called anosognosia. When schizophrenia goes untreated, the consequences can be deadly.

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Psychiatry Interviewing Psychiatric Schizophrenia 98

Michigan Social Work

MAY 9, 2023

Silverman Conference in the Department of Psychiatry this week. She spoke about her study in a presentation on "Adapting a Cognitive Behavioral Suicide Prevention Treatment for Adults with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders in Community Mental Health.”

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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.

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Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychiatric Disorder 52

Clinical Philosophy

DECEMBER 23, 2020

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). Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her. She appears deluded.

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Schizophrenia Psychiatry Psychology Interviewing 52

Clinical Philosophy

OCTOBER 21, 2023

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! -

Psychiatry 64

Psychiatry Psychiatric Schizophrenia Adoption 64

Beautiful Voyager

JANUARY 3, 2022

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). Etiology may include mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, depression, or schizophrenia.

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Disorder Mental Health Self-harm Paranoia 96

Relias

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Question: When it comes to diagnosing, we see that Black/African Americans have higher rates of being diagnosed with schizophrenia, where instead the diagnoses should be PTSD or MDD. The book My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem does a great job of connecting this history to our current experiences that might be helpful.

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Healthcare Diversity Psychiatry Schizophrenia 52