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Rethinking Psychiatric “Overdiagnosis” as a Response to Clinical Need
The Diagnostic Stretching Hypothesis
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ADHD Beyond Attention Deficit
And a new series in NYT
Sep 29
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I Believe in a Radical Abundance of Relational Care
I am wary of movements that focus on a subtractive agenda, one whose primary ambition is to take things away from people.
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Autism’s Confusing Cousins
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DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
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What Do We Owe the Insufferable?
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ADHD Beyond Stimulants, and Stimulants Beyond ADHD
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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
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Eric Caplan is a historian of American psychiatry and the author of "When Healing Harms"
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Defending the Mechanistic Plausibility of Protracted and Delayed Antidepressant Withdrawal
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Postpartum Psychosis and Diagnostic Sclerosis
The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM
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Lindsay Clancy and the Dream of a World Beyond the Insanity Defense
The absurdity of mad versus bad
Aug 29
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Under the Borderline: Rensin and the Delano Confusion
On reality and the rejection of the medical gaze
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Setting the Record Straight: What the New York AOT Evaluation Team Actually Found
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