PSYREFLECT

Issue #22

March 19, 2026

#1Research

A Smartphone App That Watches Your Behavior to Treat Youth Anxiety

The phone is not the therapist — it is the scheduling algorithm that decides when the therapist's tools land on the patient's screen.

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#2Research

When the Body Stops Reaching the Mind: Interoception as a Mechanism of Dissociation

Dissociation may not be the mind escaping the body — it may be the body's signals failing to reach the mind.

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#3Tool

Measuring the Dissociative Face of PTSD in a War-Exposed Population: Ukrainian DSPS Validation

The dissociative subtype of PTSD hides behind standard measures — this scale was built to find it, and now it speaks Ukrainian.

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#4Industry

The Regulatory Reckoning: FDA and States Move on AI Therapy Chatbots

The FDA's core insight: an AI that cannot recognize its own confusion is fundamentally unsafe for therapy.

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#5Industry

The Screening Mandate Wave: States Require Perinatal Mental Health Assessment

Mandating the screening question is easy. Mandating what happens after a positive answer is the real policy challenge.

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#6Resource

ISSTD Certificate in Complex Trauma and Dissociation: The Gold-Standard Training Path

Most clinicians have one lecture on dissociation from graduate school. This program replaces that with a structured clinical competency.

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