Framing question: is the most salient issue that elected GOP officials and high-profile Trump supporters are calling for a campaign of extralegal, political violence that it “Disturbs Experts”? nytimes.com/2023/06/10/us/…

Mixed Bag #17: Julia Knopes on Boundary Ethics in Peer Support awaisaftab.substack.com/p/mixed-bag-17…

If you were a Spice Girl, what would your first name be? I’m going with “Old.”

Mixed Bag #18: Courtney Thompson (Courtney E. Thompson 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 ) explores Phrenology using a book, a concept, a person, an article, and a surprise item! awaisaftab.substack.com/p/mixed-bag-18…

I had the most wonderful experience writing for Wellcome; my latest, on plastic surgery and face recognition technology. wellcomecollection.org/articles/ZJBir…

I guess if you want your tuition cancelled, you have to be the nephew of a Supreme Court Justice with a billionaire sugar daddy.

With Charizard outside Dewey’s pizza.

Article: Trauma, protest, and therapeutic culture in Algeria since the 1980s, by Mélanie Henry – h-madness historypsychiatry.com/2023/07/04/art…

We're moving! DECOLMAD and our sister project Covid-19 and Global Mental Health 🦠😷 are now integrated in the new Center for Culture and the Mind at the university of Copenhagen. Follow Centre for Culture and the Mind to stay in touch with our work and upcoming events!

Just reading neurologist Simon Shorvon's 760 page epic on the modern history of epilepsy called 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘥𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘴𝘺 and it's an absolute masterpiece simonshorvon.uk/2022/11/21/the…

Accidentally traveling from Ohio to Virginia to Florida to try to vote in each place by Election Day 2020, as one does, as a licensed attorney who’s into Donald Trump. cleveland.com/court-justice/…

Wesleyan University Ends Legacy Admissions nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/…

Our book is finally here! 🚨 If are a student, teacher, or practitioner of global mental health, we’ve curated wonderful insights from 70 contributors. Many thanks to Routledge Books and to my (twitter-shy) co-editor Anne Becker Harvard Medical School.

Chapter #1 has fascinating stories from historians Jonathan Sadowsky and Jeremy Greene. It describes the ugly colonial roots, the advocates who fought these ethnocentric abuses, and how current debates (are MH conditions universal?) can be traced back.