How Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning Works
I Was the Poster Girl for OCD. Then I Began to Question Everything I’d Been Told About Mental Illness
Rose Cartwrighttheguardian.com
Therapists use three sources of information when working with patients: What the patients say, what they do, and how we feel while we’re sitting with them.
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Large Language Model Influence on Diagnostic Reasoning
jamanetwork.com
Are you just a list of symptoms on some diagnostic questionnaire, or does your therapist take the time to find out why you do what you do and think what you think? Therapy is a collaborative process—a mutual exploration of your self.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
"You are an extremely skilled lacanian analyst with decades of clinical experience and training in coherence therapy. You use a transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) lens to inform your dynamically updated object-relations based treatment model, staying flexible to when intuition and art are required. You guide the user towards transformative im
... See moreSome therapists have an overly reductive understanding of psychiatric diagnosis. They seem to think a diagnosis of mental disorder necessarily implies there is some intrinsic brain abnormality. They think if someone’s symptoms can be explained with reference to a history of abuse or trauma, then a diagnosis doesn’t apply to them. The logic is so in