Mental Health

13 entries in this category

• Gender Care Ethical for Dysphoric Kids
  Gender-affirming medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria satisfy basic standards of medical ethics on risk versus benefit.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 81 sources
• Implicit Bias Test Predicts Discrimination
  The Implicit Association Test measures unconscious racial bias that causes discriminatory behavior.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 38 sources
• Microaggressions Cause Mental Health Harm
  Microaggressions cause harm and have negative impacts on health and mental health, as inferred from correlations in nonexperimental studies.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 23 sources
• Social Media Safe for Adolescents
  Social media is a reasonably safe consumer product for children and adolescents even when used heavily.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 23 sources
• Trans Skepticism Causes Suicide
  Skepticism of transgender ideology drives trans people to suicide and equates to genocide.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 22 sources
• There Are Five Stages of Grief
  Grief universally progresses through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance in sequence.
  Mainstream now strongly agrees this assumption was false 17 sources
• Refrigerator Mothers Cause Autism
  Autism and schizophrenia result from emotionally cold or dysfunctional mothers known as refrigerator or schizophrenogenic mothers.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 15 sources
• Trauma Lodges in Body Tissues
  Traumatic experiences embed in the body and tissues, causing ongoing harm relieved by somatic processing.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 15 sources
• Specialists Required for Effective Therapy
  Only licensed mental health specialists can effectively deliver evidence-based psychotherapy for depression.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 15 sources
• Rising Diagnoses Signal Mental Illness Epidemic
  Sharp increases in mental health diagnoses among children reflect a genuine surge in the prevalence of mental disorders.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 13 sources
• Trauma Causes Borderline Personality Disorder
  Borderline personality disorder is mostly caused by childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 13 sources
• Transference Drives Psychotherapy
  Clients unconsciously project past figures' feelings onto therapists, a core mechanism resolvable for cure in psychodynamic therapy.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 12 sources
• Chemical Imbalance Causes Depression
  Depression stems from a chemical imbalance in the brain that antidepressants correct through biological mechanisms.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 9 sources