We have to assume that what we read at MIA is explicitly and implicitly colored by the commitment to portray psychiatry as a failed discipline.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Book Review: Roll Back the World by Deborah Kasdan| www.psychiatrymargins.com
What you need to know about your diagnosis| www.psychiatrymargins.com
From the Spring 2023 issue of Asylum magazine| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A psychiatrist tackles the psychology of false beliefs in the misinformation age| Psychiatry at the Margins
The healing power of diagnosis gets a befitting name.| Psychiatry at the Margins
A book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item| Psychiatry at the Margins
“I’ve worked on many things in my life, and I have never once found a problem with such depth and complexity.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
MIA distorts or ignores basic facts about genetics that are necessary to keep one tethered to scientific reality| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Review of “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry” by George Ikkos| Psychiatry at the Margins
Insights from a computational perspective on personality pathology| Psychiatry at the Margins
A commentary on Kendler's history of metaphorical brain talk in psychiatry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
In situations where some physicians would admit involuntarily but others would not, holding patients against their will leaves them worse off.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Scott Alexander discusses the incoherent wish for an apolitical psychiatric classification in a recent blogpost on Astral Codex Ten. His post is in response to assertions that it is better for classifications to eschew social and political influences because when they don’t do so, it results in errors like the DSM classifying homosexuality as a disorder. Alexander argues that “The people asking for apolitical taxonomies want an incoherent thing. They want something which doesn’t think a...| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A list of all the posts and interviews on the topic of psychiatric genetics| Psychiatry at the Margins
We look for genes as a means to an end—biology, epidemiology, and etiology of complex human outcomes.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
There is a legitimate sense in which depression can be said to affect how people think, feel and act| www.psychiatrymargins.com
What does the DSM say about the unobservable structure of psychopathology?| www.psychiatrymargins.com
My article in Psyche for patients and general readers| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A guest post on the neglect of suffering and its clinical cost| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Complacency is the wrong conclusion of a new debated study| www.psychiatrymargins.com
The “Borderline” Years| www.psychiatrymargins.com
“Nothing but cogs and wheels and springs”| Psychiatry at the Margins
Responses to ‘The “Overdiagnosis” Confusion’ and additional comments| Psychiatry at the Margins
Ellen Barry is a reporter covering mental health for the New York Times.| Psychiatry at the Margins
“Overdiagnosis” is a blunt verdict offering blunt solutions| Psychiatry at the Margins
Guest post by Kinnon Ross MacKinnon and Pablo Expósito-Campos| Psychiatry at the Margins
a book, a concept, a person, an article & a surprise item| Psychiatry at the Margins
“Individuals with disorders often have advantages, but that does not make the disorder an adaptation.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Updates, clarifications, and corrections| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Excerpts from the epilogue of my book in which I am asked questions by Richard Gipps & Nev Jones| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Exploring critical, philosophical, and scientific debates in psychiatric practice and the psy-sciences. Click to read Psychiatry at the Margins, by Awais Aftab, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
If psychiatry is indeed a fraud, then we should all be antipsychiatrists!| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Guest Post by Helene Speyer| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Guest Post by Lisa Wallace| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Examining the inadequacies in the common understanding of a clinical concept| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Cliff-edged fitness functions and the evolution of schizophrenia| www.psychiatrymargins.com
“Our brains are not like Mendel’s peas.”| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Genetics so far has offered few answers but has provided many clues| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A Review of Adrian Kind's "How Does the Psychiatrist Know?"| www.psychiatrymargins.com
And reflections on relationships with psychotropics gone awry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A Review of Laura Delano's "Unshrunk"| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Reevaluating the emphasis on efficacy vs risks| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A 3-step strategy of attacking medical psychiatry| www.psychiatrymargins.com
I’ve conducted Q&As and discussions with a number of folks on this Substack with the hope of fostering a re-examination of philosophical and scientific debates in the psy-sciences.| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Setting the stage for new scientific characterizations of psychopathology| www.psychiatrymargins.com
The medical model in context| www.psychiatrymargins.com
A disease state is not identical with the biological state but it is metaphysically dependent on it| www.psychiatrymargins.com
Populism can be a powerful force, but it tends to be neither self-critical nor self-correcting| www.psychiatrymargins.com
What does heritability tell us about causation?| www.psychiatrymargins.com
