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Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorders / Opening Session...
We will be periodically posting summaries of the 4th interdisciplinary conference on brain, mind, and culture (“Cultural and Biological Contexts of Psychiatric Disorder”) sponsored by the Foundation...
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Talk Summaries: Cultural and Biological Contexts of Schizophrenia (FPR-UCLA...
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SZ and BPD: The Importance of Psychotherapy
From Session 5 (Schizophrenia) of the FPR-UCLA 2010 conference on cultural and biological contexts of psychiatric disorder. Below is a 4 min excerpt on the importance of psychotherapy in treating SZ...
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Surviving Severe Mental Illness in the US and Indonesia
This summary is by science writer Karen A. Frenkel. Karen will be contributing a blogpost about her forthcoming interview with neuroscientist Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania on Dr....
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Living Under the Description of Bipolar Illness: Neuroscientific Promises and...
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Dissociation and the DSM: Why Psychiatry Needs the Cultural Anthropologist
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“What is Mental Illness?” Psychiatry in a State of Flux
UPDATE: Skeptically Speaking interviews Richard McNally (6/12/11) An untidy stack of new books on psychiatry has sprouted in my office since our last conference on cultural and biological contexts of...
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NYT 6/16: “A schizophrenic, a slain worker, troubling questions”
Recent NYT article (“A schizophrenic, a slain worker, troubling questions”) underscores the need for systems of care: “If we don’t get funding, we’re either on the street, in prison, dead or rather be...
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Defining Mental Illness in Children: The SSI “Safety Net”
Excerpt from forthcoming New York Review of Books (“The Illusions of Psychiatry” by Marcia Angell dd. 7/14/11 ): One would be hard pressed to find a two-year-old who is not sometimes irritable, a boy...
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Grad Students! Society for Study of Psychiatry & Culture Call for Papers
Charles Hughes Fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry The Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture announces its 11th annual call for papers for the Charles Hughes Fellowship in...
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Beyond DSM-5: Levels of explanation in psychiatry (the “fuzzy set” approach)
Daniel Lende of Neuroanthropology has listed a lot of interesting reading re the DSM-5 process that basically boils down to whether this discussion and debate should be open to the public. I think it...
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Deadline Extension to 8/3: Ethnographic Perspectives on Global Mental Health
Just received this notice via McGill’s listserv. See also Somatosphere’s excellent summary of McGill’s Global Mental Health workshop and conference (Global Mental Health and Its Discontents) by Dörte...
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3×5: Culture, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry Weekly Roundup (July 30)
Culture 1. Ginger Campbell (Brain Science Podcast) interviews UC Berkeley biological anthropologist Terrence Deacon about his book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter, which was reviewed by...
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3×5: Culture, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry Weekly Roundup: Empathy (August 6)
UPDATE: New links from Lori Hogenkamp via Facebook at end of post. Brief note: I’ve come to realize that empathy (and its putative component processes – mirror neuron networks, affect sharing,...
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3×5: Culture, Neuroscience, and Psychiatry Schizophrenia Roundup
Many thanks (seriously) to Nev Jones for sending so many great suggestions my way. Culture/Environment 1. Variation – among individuals, geographically, and across cultures – in the incidence,...
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Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and...
The concept of mental illness in the West is largely shaped by the DSM diagnostic model. The DSM categorization of psychiatric disorders has been useful in driving research, and psychiatric...
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Roundup: New & Forthcoming Books (Late 2013–2015) at the Intersection of...
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More clues in the genetics of schizophrenia : Nature News
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111031/full/news.2011.620.html?WT.ec_id=NEWS-20111101Filed under: cultural & biological contexts of psychiatric disorder, schizophrenia
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