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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
 • Susan T. Mahler, MD
15
How Antidepressants Work
 • Awais Aftab
10
DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
 • Awais Aftab
6
People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another
 • Awais Aftab
16
The Remaking of a Therapist
 • Awais Aftab
4
A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age
 • Awais Aftab
20
The Medication Life and the Moral Career
On antidepressants, ambivalence, & uncertainty
 • 
Awais Aftab
8
The Science of Clinical Psychiatric Reasoning
Heinrichs introduces his book “How Psychiatrists Make Decisions”
 • 
Awais Aftab
 and 
Douglas Heinrichs
4
Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology
A book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item
 • 
Nils Wendel, MD
Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”
 • 
Awais Aftab
12
Profiled in Lancet Psychiatry
“one of the discipline’s foremost public intellectuals”
 • 
Awais Aftab
24
The Evolutionary Genetics of Schizophrenia
Updates, clarifications, and corrections
 • 
Awais Aftab
6
Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff
Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia
 • 
Awais Aftab
5
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Psychiatry at the Margins
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