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A Resource Guide for Clinicians, Journalists, Patients, and the General Public
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What you need to know about your diagnosis
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Psychiatric diagnosis remains mired in perpetual controversy yet so much of the critique is directed at cliches and stereotypes of diagnosis rather than…
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Anneli Jefferson’s philosophical explication of whether and when we can call mental disorders “brain disorders” is one of the best that I’ve come…
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Academic - Open Access Problems for enactive psychiatry as a practical framework. Jodie Louise Russell in Philosophical Psychology. Investigating Lay…
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If psychiatry is indeed a fraud, then we should all be antipsychiatrists!
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This post is in response to Erik Hoel ’s post, “If serotonin isn't linked to depression, why do SSRIs even work?” on The Intrinsic Perspective (requires…
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“The history of American psychiatry is a history of ignorance,” declares sociologist Owen Whooley in the opening statement of his 2019 book On The Heels…
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Back to the Future
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More on Mental Disorders as Brain Disorders
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In 2019 the European Medicines Agency (EMA) acknowledged that sexual dysfunction can persist after treatment with serotonergic antidepressants has been…
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"... good conspiracy theories have lots of convincing-sounding evidence in their favor, and may sound totally plausible to a smart person reasoning…
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