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Q&A with Pim Welle on the New York Fed Staff Report on Involuntary Hospitalization
“I’ve worked on many things in my life, and I have never once found a problem with such depth and complexity.”
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Pim Welle
Psychiatry and Critique: Integrative or Dialectical?
Review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” by George Ikkos
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George Ikkos
Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology
 • 
Orestis Zavlis
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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
 • Susan T. Mahler, MD
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Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff
 • Awais Aftab
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How Antidepressants Work
 • Awais Aftab
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DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
 • Awais Aftab
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People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another
 • Awais Aftab
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Rich Girl Rehab
 • Sorbie
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The Psychiatrist at the Edge of the World
Can psychiatry be reformed? And can what we call mental illness be prevented?
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Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies
A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Milestone/Open Thread/Updates
Ask Me Anything
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds
In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics—A Substack Collection
A list of all the posts and interviews on the topic of psychiatric genetics
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Psychiatric Genetics Beyond Heritability: Q&A with Michel Nivard
We look for genes as a means to an end—biology, epidemiology, and etiology of complex human outcomes.
 • 
Awais Aftab
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Michel Nivard
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Unmeasured Minds
A guest post on the neglect of suffering and its clinical cost
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Alex Mendelsohn
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