Using Crisis Theory in Dealing With Severe Mental Illness–A Step Toward Normalization? [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 The perception of mental distress varies with time and culture, e.g., concerning its origin as either social or medical. This may be one reason for the moderate reliability of descriptive psychiatric diagnoses.
Johanna Baumgardt +3 more
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Teachers With Special Needs. De-Psychiatrization of Children in Schools [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 Psychiatrization not only affects adults. Ever more children in Western countries are being diagnosed with a mental disorder of behavior, such as ADHD.
Laura Batstra +2 more
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The (Un)real Existence of ADHD—Criteria, Functions, and Forms of the Diagnostic Entity [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 The contemporary conceptualization of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a complex, multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder cannot be understood as such without a complex assemblage of political, economic, and cultural processes that ...
Juho Honkasilta, Athanasios Koutsoklenis
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From adventures to diagnosis: adolescent behavior in classic fiction through the eyes of newly licensed Czech psychiatrists – a vignette study [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionYouth mental health is a growing concern, with reports of psychiatric diagnoses becoming increasingly prevalent. Among other factors, psychiatrization may inflate the observed prevalence by interpreting experiences previously understood as ...
Vojtech Pisl +7 more
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Violence as an individual concern: responding to technology-facilitated sexual violence within child and adolescent psychiatry [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyTechnology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is an emerging concern in child and adolescent mental health. This article presents an analysis of how child and adolescent psychiatric professionals conceptualize the phenomenon of TFSV in relation to their ...
Frida Carlberg Rindestig +3 more
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Editorial: Psychiatrization of society [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2023 Timo Beeker +3 more
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Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundPsychiatrization may contribute to the deterioration of public mental health observed in recent decades. The cultural aspects of psychiatrization can be understood as a form of concept creep (progressive expansion) of mental health terminology.
Vojtech Pisl +2 more
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Grief in modern multicultural Europe – a way out of “disenfranchisement” [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction The recent addition to both ICD-11 and DSM-V of “Prolonged Grief Disorder” “PGD” raises questions regarding the complexity of the clinical manifestations and the nuances of “normal/abnormal” grief.
Z. Correia De Sá +2 more
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Bipolar Disorder due to Cushing’s Disease, with manic characteristics. Regarding a clinical case. [PDF]
European PsychiatryIntroduction The increase in cortisol can be exogenous or endogenous. As etiologies of endogenous increase we find: Cushing’s disease, 68% of cases, generally due to an ACTH-producing pituitary tumor; Adrenal Cushing syndrome (17%); Ectopic Cushing ...
M. D. C. Blasco Fresco +4 more
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Corrigendum: Teachers with Special Needs. De-Psychiatrization of Children in Schools [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Laura Batstra +2 more
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