(Don't) call me crazy : 33 voices start the conversation about mental health

Do not call me crazy

33 voices start the conversation about mental health

Defying definition / Defining the thing is the trick / What I know and what I don't know / What's, well, "crazy"? / Being heard and hating sound / I hate to interrupt this conversation about mental illness, but guess what -- I'm autistic / Autistic authors who Mike Jung thinks are great / The devil inside / 10 horror films about fear / Manic pixie dream girl ["pixie dream" crossed out] / Constellation of scars / Constellation of scars (art) / Top 10 crazies in fiction / What we're born with ans what we pick up along the way / Some of the things mania assures me I could totally be -- and wouldn't it be glorious? / The alchemy of healing / Bless this mess / Loosened associations / Meeting disorder / I underwent cosmetic surgery for my body dysmorphia ... and I wish I hadn't / Flattened / Dear 14-year-old MILCK / Rituals / The five people you overhear when depressed at a Van Gogh exhibit / Mystic / Fighting the war on the home front / Ways to say "anxiety" / The train of overthinking / Black hole / I'm over staying silent about depression / Telephone anxiety / Driver's ed / The pretender / Compassion training: metta meditation / Coda / Tearing feelings apart / The light bulb, the broom, and the work they don't tell you about / Happiness goes on / Survival mode / A witch's guide / Believe in yourself / Call me crazy / Keep going

The diagnostic system : why the classification of psychiatric disorders is necessary, difficult, and never settled

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders.

The deep ambiguity of mental illness -- Controversies surrounding formal diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders -- The framework of the diagnostic system -- The structure of the chapters -- A brief history of DSM-III -- Psychiatry, science, and medicine -- The DSM and health insurance -- The guiding principles of DSM-III -- The Feighner criteria -- The DSM-III criteria -- The success of DSM-III -- Psychiatric disorders around the globe -- Interpreting the prevalence of psychiatric disorders -- The conservative approach -- The dimensional approach -- The network approach -- Considering normal and abnormal responses to the environment -- More lumping and less splitting -- Considering the career of a diagnosis -- Theory neutrality in practice -- Mental disorders as essences -- The production of unreliability -- Diagnostic workarounds -- Institutional pressures on diagnosis -- The accuracy of diagnosis in primary-care settings -- Using the DSM -- Public beliefs about mental illness -- How is information about diagnosis used in the clinical encounter? -- Does the DSM create false epidemics? -- The stigma of psychiatric disorders -- Do labels matter for public beliefs? -- Resisting and avoiding labels -- Disease specificity and the public -- The neglect of naturally occurring symptom profiles -- The difficulties of revising the DSM for purposes of research -- The DSM and the lexicon of disorders -- Diagnosing versus treating disorders -- The DSM creates new entities and not just new symptoms -- Psychiatric disorders have strong semantic gravity -- The use of psychiatric teams in fiction -- Are there genes for mental illness? -- Interpreting genetic influences -- Are the effects of genes specific? -- The neuroscience of psychiatric disorders -- Is mental illness categorical? -- Are major and minor disorders caused by different things? -- Science and the DSM-5 -- The universe of validators -- Science and judgment -- Competition among scientific frameworks -- The problem of consciousness -- The appeal of the natural sciences -- The inescapable importance of values -- Conflict among science, clinicians, and the public -- Moving forward -- The diagnostic system in equilibrium -- The last DSM.

Before she ignites

Fallen isles novel

Fallen Isles trilogy.

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Freaks like us

Have a nice day

How it feels to float

Every you, every me

The Wicker King

Wicker King ;

Twisted fate : a novel

The words we keep

The girl in the castle

Girl in the castle : my name is Hannah Dory, and I need you to believe me