When Perfect Storms Collide: The Ecological Origins of the Rapid Increase in Medicalization of Gender Dysphoria in Youth
CME credits now available for Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe's lecture from The Bigger Picture Lisbon
How did social media and modern psychiatry create the perfect conditions for a surge in gender dysphoria among youth? We're pleased to announce that psychiatrist Dr. Kristopher Kaliebe's thought-provoking presentation from our Bigger Picture Lisbon conference is now CME accredited.
In this groundbreaking session, Dr. Kaliebe reveals how two "perfect storms" have collided—social media's impact on adolescent body image and medicine's vulnerability to placebo effects—creating an unprecedented wave of gender medicalization in young people.
Drawing from evolutionary psychology and clinical experience, Dr. Kaliebe exposes how 82% of psychiatrists acknowledge seeing social media-influenced gender identity issues in teens, yet few speak publicly. He challenges psychiatry's overreliance on diagnostic labels, warning against "illness identities" that can harm rather than heal.
This CME-accredited presentation equips healthcare professionals with frameworks for identifying the underlying needs—power, attention, affiliation, or rebellion—that drive concerning behaviors, offering essential insights for understanding why traditional psychiatric approaches may be failing our youth.
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For our CME-tier subscribers, credits are available for this lecture—complete details provided below.