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Autism’s Confusing Cousins
A differential diagnosis for the weird and the awkward
 • Awais Aftab
DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
Whither Major Depression?
 • Awais Aftab
What Do We Owe the Insufferable?
When mental illness exhausts our emotional capacities
 • Awais Aftab
ADHD Beyond Stimulants, and Stimulants Beyond ADHD
Your brain on stimulants vs your brain on ADHD
 • Awais Aftab
Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.
 • Susan T. Mahler, MD
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
How Antidepressants Work
A neuropsychological story featuring emotional processing shifts, cognitive flexibility, neuroticism, and emotional blunting
 • Awais Aftab
How the Citrus Cure for Scurvy Was Lost, and Lessons for the Science of Psychopathology
The copper-lined containers and the contexts that neutralize treatment
 • Awais Aftab
Rich Girl Rehab
The “Borderline” Years
 • Sorbie
People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another
The medical model in context
 • Awais Aftab
The Remaking of a Therapist
Guest Post by Stephanie Foster
 • Stephanie Foster
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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