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A new piece published in Psychiatry Research finds that people with multiple minoritized identities experiencing early ...

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Whether in Nazi fascism, Soviet totalitarian communism, or U.S. corporate capitalism, psychiatry has been an enabler of the ...

A new brief report published in JAMA Psychiatry finds that the instructions for the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ), a ...

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Many of those who experience AI psychosis have no psychiatric diagnosis, but were experiencing stressors, isolation, and lack ...