Archive - Psychiatry at the Margins

The Rumpelstiltskin Effect: Meet the Name for the Relief a Diagnosis Brings

The healing power of diagnosis gets a befitting name.

Aug 22 •

Alan Levinovitz

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Mixed Bag #24: Thomas Reilly on Ovarian Hormones in Mental Disorders

A book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item

Aug 19 •

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.”

Aug 16 •

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Psychiatry and Critique: Integrative or Dialectical?

Review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” by George Ikkos

Aug 13 •

Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders

Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology

Aug 9 •

The Psychiatrist at the Edge of the World

Can psychiatry be reformed? And can what we call mental illness be prevented?

Published on Who We Are To Each Other • Aug 6

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies

A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry

Aug 3 •

July 2025

Milestone/Open Thread/Updates

Ask Me Anything

Jul 26 •

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.

Jul 23 •

Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics—A Substack Collection

A list of all the posts and interviews on the topic of psychiatric genetics

Jul 21 •

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.

Jul 19 •

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Unmeasured Minds

A guest post on the neglect of suffering and its clinical cost

Jul 12 •

Alex Mendelsohn

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