Family Dysfunction and Mental Health Blog

public domain  When I discuss family dysfunction, the question of “who’s to blame”– the adult children or their parents – frequently arises. Emotions then tend to run wild. I belie...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/04/blame-guilt-and-family-dysfunction.html

A psychiatrist with Intense, bulging eyes by C. Josef, CC Attributions 4.0   In my last post, I mentioned that the research into both psychotherapy outcomes and personality disorders is e...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-pervasive-weaknesses-of.html

According to CBS News, most offspring who kill their parents are adult children, meaning they are over 18 years of age. Over the 32-year period examined, the number of juvenile parricide offe...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/02/when-children-kill-their-parents.html

New podcast, Part II, discusses my family dysfunction model in more detail. Your problems with it are not "all in your head." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjG5LbV26ps

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/02/new-podcast-part-ii-family-dysfunction.html

  In my review of the book, The Coddling of the American Mind by Haidt and Lukianoff, I focused on a cultural shift on college campuses that has often led to an environment characterized ...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-canceling-of-american.html

  A new article  in the blog ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Too High  describes some new and current programs that aim to help the perpetrators of domestic violence. Not it...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2024/01/perpetrators-of-domestic-violence.html

Is pornography addiction a real condition? In the book I co-edited, Groupthink in Science, we have a chapter by Nicole Prause, a neuroscientist who has been very active in this debate (and is...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/12/pornography-addiction.html

Opening of anatomical theater at medical faculty at Bogomolets National Medical University circa 1853                                                Unknown author.�...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/11/racism-in-medicine.html

 I'm interviewed on two new podcasts.  The first describes my background and how I got interested in the family dynamics of self-destructive behavior (particularly borderline personality diso...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/10/i-am-interviewed-on-two-new-podcasts.html

  Functional magnetic resonance imaging by Washington Irving, public domain In an article in the Washington Post on 8/2/23, cultural critic Kristen Martin wrote an essay about how some bes...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/10/genes-vs-environment-neuroscience.html

In 2019, I wrote a review  of a book by Amber Scorah titled Leaving the Witness about a woman growing up as a member of a cult-like religion. People in that group were taught to avoid ta...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/09/book-review-educated-memoir-by-tara.html

  In a previous post, I discussed one big reason for the increase in tent cities for the homeless: the defunding of critical parts of the mental health safety net. In this post, I’m going ...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-foster-care-to-homelessness-pipeline.html

  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPjK28Du95eX2ZdWTT5_6TQ I also corrected the web address on the original blog post.

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-inadvertently-put-wrong-youtube.html

  The problem of homelessness in the United States has finally been getting more attention lately. A big part of this population has a chronic severe and persistent mental illness like chro...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/07/homelessness-prisons-and-mental-illness.html

I write frequently about a phenomenon called cultural lag that I stole from sociology  and modified a little. What is it? Cultural lag, as originally defined, is when there are differences in t...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-slow-evolution-of-gender-roles.html

When I bring up with many other professionals the idea that major depression is now over-diagnosed by relabeling what used to be called dysthymia as "mild' major depression, a lot of them s...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-conflation-of-chronic-sadness-with.html

I was interviewed today on the Facebook page for a movie called "Medicating Normal" about the current problematic state of psychiatry - such things as malignant polypharmacy, the over-diagnos...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/05/medicating-normal-interview.html

As mentioned in my post of January 31, there are many studies showing a correlation between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE's) and a wide variety of psychiatric and physical conditions. Th...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/05/aces-brain-changes-and-likelihood-of.html

The serenity prayer:  God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.   When I read psych...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/04/behavioral-disorders-are-not-all-in.html

  Michael Shermer is the man behind Skeptic and the Skeptic Society. The group talks about all the crazy stuff people believe in and promotes science and critical thinking. This book was or...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/03/book-review-why-people-believe-weird.html

  A new article in a nursing journal discusses the experience of Swedish families of people with members who have borderline personality disorder (BPD), and who have access to something they c...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/02/family-dysfunction-and-bpd-behavior.html

  In my last post, I mentioned that the American Psychiatric Association rejected the diagnosis of Developmental Trauma Disorder in 2011, and refused to acknowledge that “…childhood ad...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/01/adverse-childhood-experiences-and.html

As I stated in my Review of Nadine Harris’s The Deepest Well , every mental health professional should know that adverse (traumatic) childhood experiences (ACE’s) - especially with parent...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-review-body-keeps-score-by-bissel.html

  There has been a lot of news recently about the significant increase lately in the number of drug overdoses resulting in fatalities. Most of these overdoses are labeled “accidental,�...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2022/12/accidental-overdose-or-suicide.html

  If a mental health provider has you on a whole lot of different psych meds on the basis of a cursory diagnostic interview without much follow up and almost no attention to what is going o...

http://davidmallenmd.blogspot.com/2022/11/time-to-get-second-opinion.html