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September 2026

ADHD Beyond Attention Deficit
And a new series in NYT
 • Awais Aftab
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.
 • Awais Aftab
Maybe Don’t Ask Your Doctor if Zoloft Is Right for You
On imperfect tools
 • Awais Aftab
The Lawsuit That Came to Symbolize the Fall of Psychoanalytic Psychiatry: Eric Caplan on Osheroff v. Chestnut Lodge
Eric Caplan is a historian of American psychiatry and the author of "When Healing Harms"
 • Awais Aftab
Defending the Mechanistic Plausibility of Protracted and Delayed Antidepressant Withdrawal
Guest post by Daniel Cohrs
 • Daniel Cohrs
Postpartum Psychosis and Diagnostic Sclerosis
The DSM needs postpartum psychosis more than postpartum psychosis needs the DSM
 • Awais Aftab

August 2026

Lindsay Clancy and the Dream of a World Beyond the Insanity Defense
The absurdity of mad versus bad
 • Awais Aftab
Under the Borderline: Rensin and the Delano Confusion
On reality and the rejection of the medical gaze
 • Awais Aftab
Setting the Record Straight: What the New York AOT Evaluation Team Actually Found
New York State Legislature ordered a comprehensive independent study of Kendra’s Law in 2022. The results have now been published and are being…
 • Nev Jones
Erotic Countertransference Disclosure and the Collapse of the “as-if” Relationship
Some psychotherapists argue that erotic countertransference disclosures may serve a therapeutic function... but what are the pitfalls?
 • Franny Talks Freud
Notes on Freud and Cocaine
Sometimes cocaine use is just cocaine use, and sometimes it is a prelude to the development of psychoanalysis...
 • Awais Aftab
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