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Psychology of Becoming

07 Apr Deciding What’s Normal at TEDMED

Posted at 16:45h in Creativity, Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming 2 Comments

April 7, 2012 Deciding What's Normal. What a great topic for me to lobby folks around at the TEDMED conference this coming week in Washington, D.C. The topic and I are 1 of 50 "Great Challenges" in health and medicine that will be represented at the conference, along with the usual...

22 Mar Can You Grieve and Not Be Labeled with a Mental Disorder?

Posted at 21:38h in DSM-5, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 3 Comments

March 22, 2012 Today I read Joanne Cacciatore’s blog. She’s the founder of the MISS Foundation, an international nonprofit organization with 75 chapters around the world aiding parents whose children have died or are dying at any age and from any cause. (She’s also a professor and researcher at Arizona State...

17 Mar What if client and mental health provider co-created a diagnosis?

Posted at 17:38h in DSM-5, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapy 2 Comments

March 17, 2012 A big thank you to Dr. Eric Maisel for having me as a guest blogger at his Rethinking Psychology column at Psychology Today. Check out the 3/16/12 post, asking "What if client and mental health provider co-created a diagnosis?"And become a regular reader of Rethinking Psychology....

14 Mar APA DSM-5 Task Force Discloses and Exposes

Posted at 00:55h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Health Care, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 2 Comments

March 13, 2012 "After the 1994 release of DSM-4, the APA instituted a policy requiring expert advisors to disclose drug industry ties. But the move toward transparency did little to cut down on conflicts, with nearly 70 percent of DSM-5 task force members reporting financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies—up from 57...

23 Feb Forget the DSM: Social Therapy as Clinical Practice

Posted at 18:14h in Community Organizing, Creativity, Critical psychiatry, Culture, DSM-5, Education, Health Care, Human Development, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy 0 Comments

February 23, 2012 I don't usually promote activities here but now is an exception. Recent posts on the DSM-5 and all that it reveals about the ways our culture relates to human emotionality have drawn new readers (much thanks to everyone who’s reposting!). I've been introduced to many others who are...

17 Feb Take Back Our Subjectivity

Posted at 01:00h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Human Development, Language, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 4 Comments

February 16, 2012 In yesterday’s Huffington Post, Dr. Eric Maisel asks, “Does Depression Exist?” Why’s he asking? To show that sometimes what we call things can create false realities. To invite readers to consider that this is what’s happened to our mental life and our feelings. To add a critical political/philosophical dimension to...

01 Feb There’s No Science in the DSM

Posted at 00:51h in DSM-5, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 7 Comments

January 31, 2012 The DSM-5 controversy continues, as more professionals and parents share their experiences and opinions regarding specific diagnostic changes and their impact on people’s lives. This is happening on the blogospere and in major media like The New York Times, which in the last ten days has had front...

24 Jan Autism, Asperger’s, Theatre and Play—Watch this TED Talk

Posted at 02:35h in Creativity, Culture, DSM-5, Human Development, Performance Movement, Psychology of Becoming, Theatre 0 Comments

January 23, 2012 A huge thanks to my friend Tony Perone for alerting me to a recent TED Talk by Stephen Volan, "Approaching Autism Theatrically." Diagnosed with Asperger's as an adult, Stephen shares how he experiences himself in the world, at one point likening it to just about constant stage fright....

18 Jan Still More on DSM-5

Posted at 03:12h in Critical psychiatry, DSM-5, Health Care, Human Development, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy 0 Comments

January 17, 2012 Here’s some other voices speaking about the DSM-5. First, Dr. Anthony Rao. Tony is a pediatric psychologist, founder of Behavioral Solutions in Lexington MA, and author of The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys. I met Tony in 2010 when I interviewed him...

09 Jan More on The DSM-5 Controversy

Posted at 17:47h in DSM-5, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Psychotherapy, Social Therapeutics, Social Therapy, Wittgenstein 0 Comments

January 9, 2012 To go a bit deeper into the underlying problems with the theory and practice of psychology that the controversy over the DSM-5 exposes, I invite you to do some philosophizing. What assumptions must people be making— about persons; therapy, the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic discourse; illness, cure and treatment; emotions...