The biomedical model posits that mental disorders are brain diseases and emphasizes
pharmacological treatment to target presumed biological abnormalities. A biologically …

The stigma and social rejection faced by people with a mental disorder constitute a major
barrier to their well-being and recovery. Medicalization has been welcomed as a strategy to …

Mental disorders are increasingly conceptualized as biomedical diseases, explained as
manifestations of genetic and neurobiological abnormalities. Here, we discuss changes in …

Beliefs about how much people can change their attributes—implicit theories—influence
affective and cognitive responses to performance and subsequent motivation. Those who …

We systematically mistreat psychological phenomena, both logically and clinically. This
article explores three contentions: that the dominant discourse in modern cognitive, affective …

From Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience by Sally Satel and
Scott Lilienfeld, copyright© 2013. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of The …

Depression is often framed as a disease or dysfunctional syndrome, yet this framing has
unintended negative consequences including increased stigma. Here, we consider an …

Objective: Previous research has shown that biological (eg, genetic, biochemical) accounts
of depression—currently in ascendancy—are linked to the general public's pessimism about …

Psychedelic or ecodelic medicines (eg, psilocybin, ayahuasca, iboga) for the care and
treatment of addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder, cancer, cluster headaches, anxiety …

Abstract Dar-Nimrod and Heine (2011) presented a masterfully broad review of the
implications of genetic essentialism for understandings of human diversity. This commentary …