This article summarizes and expands on the original narrative published at the link above, adapting it to the Italian context ...

Before I was a psychiatrist, I was a psychiatric patient. I remember sitting in waiting rooms, waiting to see the next psychiatrist with a pit in my stomach, not knowing whether my suffering would be ...

Why are psychiatry and its medical model now stronger than ever, with zero signs of weakening or collapse? In fact, arguments could be made that the medical model is not only getting stronger, but ...

For some time I have been trying to construct a coherent narrative of who my father was from the few memory fragments I have of him from childhood. Starting out with what were called “nervous ...

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Micah is part-time faculty in psychology at Point Park University. He holds a Ph.D. in Psychology: Consciousness and Society from the University of West Georgia. His interests include humanistic, ...

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