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Em
DrEm_79
Reading a series of psychiatric papers from the 1980s. They talk about using “punishment” and aversion ‘treatment’ on people who self harm. These include electric shocks, cattle prods, face coverings,
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Nyla
n_moran1
Psychiatrists, following a recent conversation I'm curious, do you genuinely believe that your assessment of a patient is ever truly "objective"? It seems to me that by "objective" you really
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Dr. Juliette McClendon
DrJulietteM
The stain of racism is deep within the origins of Psychiatry and Psychology. History lesson thread...1/14 Early in its lifetime, psychiatry played a central role in justifying chattel slavery. The
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Wear a mask 😷 & stay safe!
Altostrata
@psychunseen: "...if the goal of anti-psychiatry is to get #psychiatrists to listen...this is better done within a therapeutic relationship, not in a picket line at the American Psychiatric Association annual
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Vote Out Democrats in 2020
DemoOut
WHO is Brock Chisholm? (LONG THREAD)Brock Chisholm (18 May 1896 - 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). Brock
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Jacques Bannon
neoliberal_dad
"autism isn't real" is the sort of thing you get mad about when you don't realize psychiatry/psychology are infant fields and that most diagnoses are just ways of labelling people
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Awais Aftab
awaisaftab
Why these 12 facts need to understood in larger context:1. Ok, there are no objective tests. But what does that mean? For that u have to understand the numerous &
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Dr.Bhooshan Shukla MD डॉ. भूषण शुक्ल
docbhooshan
#psychiatry #lifelessons#threadFirst year of psychiatry residency teaches some valuable life lessons.Here is a real life story about fighting delusions and living with them as it applies to today. I worked
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tara
zoo_wee_mama_
In the break room tonight, the topic of my panic disorder came up and instead of brushing it off, I talked very openly about it. Turns out most people don’t
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Dr Benjamin Janaway
drjanaway
Psychiatric medications have value, either as a bridge to enable meaningful therapy, or as a way of addressing risk. No serious psychiatrist thinks any more or any less of them
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Mental Health
Sectioned_
Is there a system problem in psychiatry around autism spectrum disorders & BPD? Diagnostic assessment of #ASD is not a core clinical skill in psychiatry - yet I see tweeps
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The Autisticats - #StopTheShock
autisticats
Next For Autism and their partner organization, the Center For Autism and the Developing Brain (CFADB), are currently engaged in a gaslighting campaign against the autistic community. Both organizations have
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Indigo Daya
IndigoDaya
@SameiHuda has argued that it’s helpful to medicalise social problems:https://twitter.com/sameihuda/status/1258725271261323264?s=21I say that’s the last thing we should ever want. Psychiatry does this all the time to survivors of #abuse, with
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Sally-Ann
sallyann98745
SO the psych report from hospital come through...Wouldn't it be amazing if we could write our own? So when they came to assess me I was half naked under a
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Dr Benjamin Janaway
drjanaway
Ill be clear on the term "antipsychiatry"; I wont use it. It risks confusing a heterogenous set of ideas and approaches, most fair criticisms by those harmed, others of an
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Mark
swinton57
Twitter is for observations and speculation right? And getting comments on your ideas. So here we go. Working in a forensic psychiatry service, plenty of our inpatients have a diagnosis
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