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The All of Thine That Cannot Die: Farewell to Two Friends

How the Citrus Cure for Scurvy Was Lost, and Lessons for the Science of Psychopathology

Antipsychotic tapering appears to help long-term in a new trial but not for the obvious reason

Mixed Bag #25: Kinnon MacKinnon on Trans Identity and Medicine

What Other Diagnoses Could Learn From Autism’s Diagnostic Appeal

Autism’s Confusing Cousins

Meaning, Medications, and Psychodynamic Psychopharmacology: Discussion with David Mintz

The Clinical Craft of Psychiatric Medication Tapering: Q&A with Anders Sørensen

6 Suggestions for DSM-6

The Unsettled Work of Psychiatry in 2025

In Search of the Unclassified Residuum: Q&A with Rachel Aviv

Understanding Detransition(s) in Transgender Healthcare

Sikorav Against the World

From Here to Humility

First-Person Psychiatric Accounts

You Aren't in the DSM

Psychiatric Diagnosis and the Endgame of Validity

Why Is Serotonin-2A Brain Receptor Binding Reduced in Depression?

Looking Again at SSRIs in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety

It is not ludicrous for mildly and severely impaired to have the same diagnosis

In Defense of Disordered Grief

New York Times Spotlights the Rumpelstiltskin Effect

ADHD, Boredom Proneness, and the Pills That Make Tedium Tolerable

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience

Why Has Critical Psychiatry Run Out of Steam?

First-Person Psychiatric Accounts: A Substack Collection

Statement on the Use of Psychiatric Medications

Machinery of Misbelief

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

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

Q&A with Pim Welle on the New York Fed Staff Report on Involuntary Hospitalization

Psychiatry and Critique: Integrative or Dialectical?

Personality Disorders as Relational Disorders

The Psychiatrist at the Edge of the World

Brain Metaphors Beyond Brain Mythologies

Milestone/Open Thread/Updates

Groundbreaking Analysis Upends Our Understanding of Psychiatric Holds

Behavioral and Psychiatric Genetics—A Substack Collection

Psychiatric Genetics

Psychiatric Genetics Beyond Heritability: Q&A with Michel Nivard

Unmeasured Minds

Playing Whack-a-Mole With the Uncertainties of Antidepressant Withdrawal

Agency, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Psychiatric Care: Q&A with Awais Aftab

Rich Girl Rehab

Psychiatric Blues

Cogwheel Souls: Q&A with Sofia Jeppsson on Madness, Fantasy, and Philosophy

Overdiagnosis and Diagnostic Chaos

Journalism, Psychiatry, and Public Trust: Q&A with Ellen Barry

The “Overdiagnosis” Confusion

Hype-Disappointment-Reinvention Cycles in Transgender Medicine

Mixed Bag #23: Glenn Sullivan on the Suicidal Patient

The Medication Life and the Moral Career

The Science of Clinical Psychiatric Reasoning

Mixed Bag #22: Nils Wendel on Learning Psychopharmacology

Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse

Profiled in Lancet Psychiatry

The Evolutionary Genetics of Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Is the Price We Pay for Minds Poised Near the Edge of a Cliff

When It Comes to SSRIs, Are Our Only Choices “Safe & Effective” or “More Dangerous Than Heroin”?

Emil du Bois-Reymond & Ignorance in Science: Interview with Gabriel Finkelstein

American Psychiatry in the Shadow of MAHA and MAGA

People Are Still Stumbling From One Misguided Narrative About the Medical Model to Another (ADHD Edition)

Could we develop a fast-acting, serotonin-based antidepressant if we wanted to?

The Politics of Conceptual and Critical Psychiatry

Psychiatry Q&A #2 (part 2) with Awais Aftab and Gary Borjesson

How Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning Works

The Paradox of Alternative Spaces: Q&A with Sascha Altman DuBrul

When the Compass Doesn’t Point North

Notable Links and Miscellanea—March 23, 2025

Building Mutual Aid Communities Outside the Clinical Context: Q&A with Cooper Davis

Notable Links & Miscellanea - March 15, 2025

Rejection of Hijab as a Psychiatric Problem in Iran

Treatment Resistant Depression — A Collective Failure of Imagination [REPOST]

A Memoir For the Iatrogenic Age

Medication Treatment Challenges in Mood Disorders: A Discussion with Jim Phelps

Anatomy of Moncrieff's Anti-Medication Playbook

Confessions of an Ambivalent Psychiatrist

The Human Challenge of Schizophrenia

The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer

The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

The Dimensional Turn in Psychopathology: Q&A with Robert Krueger

Too Mad to be True III: The Paradoxes of Madness

Gender Identity, Biological Sex, and Psychopathology: Back to Basics