Psychiatry at the Margins

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Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist
Susan Mahler, MS, MD, is a writer and psychiatrist who practices in North Adams, MA.
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Susan T. Mahler, MD
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DSM Disorders Disappear in Statistical Clustering of Psychiatric Symptoms
Whither Major Depression?
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Awais Aftab
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How Antidepressants Work
A neuropsychological story featuring emotional processing shifts, cognitive flexibility, neuroticism, and emotional blunting
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Awais Aftab
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People Are Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another
The medical model in context
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Awais Aftab
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The Remaking of a Therapist
Guest Post by Stephanie Foster
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Awais Aftab
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Gender Identity, Biological Sex, and Psychopathology: Back to Basics
Back to Basics
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Awais Aftab
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A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age
A Review of Laura Delano's "Unshrunk"
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Awais Aftab
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Either all psychopathology is personality psychopathology or there is no such thing
What we call "personality disorders" may be better characterized as "interpersonal disorders."
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Awais Aftab
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Can We Please Stop Bullshitting Patients With Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction?
Patients deserve better
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Awais Aftab
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Psychopathology, Exhaustion, and Identity
Diagnostic manuals cannot tell us who we “really” are
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Awais Aftab
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I don’t know what will save me
And other poems
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Awais Aftab
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Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”
British journalists and editors, this is for you
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Awais Aftab
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