Brave to hear how one professor of psychiatry’s experience of being treated for psychotic symptoms in a biomedical versus humanistic way herself has led to her re-evaluating her treatment of patients. bit.ly/41plTNK

Ideological conformity in academia be like

A Materialist History of Pathology and Neurodiversity: A Conversation with Robert Chapman (sloth communism ) Capitalism has led to ever-stifling norms of mental and physical functioning, with resulting increases in various forms of illness and disability. psychiatrymargins.com/p/a-materialis…

Now on @mad Attitudes Towards and Patterns of Medication Use Among Persons With ‘SMI’ madinamerica.com/2024/01/attitu…

“Szaszians hold on to a *fantasy* where an objective definition of “disorder” not only exists, but it also successfully covers recognized disorders in general medicine while conveniently excluding mental illnesses as faux-disorders.”

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This is exactly the complexity we as psychaitrists need to embrace

It is a human right to try and sometimes to fail thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

I could not agree more. And as I mor efter disagree than agree with other people, there should be plenty of possibilities for fruitfull collaborations out there! nytimes.com/2024/04/01/opi…

Epistemic injustice is inceedibly important to adress, if we are serious about the integration of lived experience: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Most problems in academia could be fixed if we started a fight club.

The causal effect of engaging in life is inherently valuable, and needs no further testing thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

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Philosophy is crucial underpinning to psychiatric practice. 2 points I think most important: 1)Disorders are useful but fallible constructs/not diseases 2)DSM decisions should be utilitarian- greatest good to greatest #/least harm from unintended consequences Excellent article:

Yes yes yes!

⚠️Updated warnings about persistent sexual dysfunction for antidepressants⚠️ The PI documents for all SSRIs and SNRIs have been aligned to reflect the risk of sexual dysfunction persisting in some patients after drug cessation. Read more: tga.gov.au/news/safety-up…

The reading of Awais Aftab s authorship through the last years have brought me a long way in my conceptual understanding of psychiatry.

Enyoing a most engaged audience at ENMESH mental health in Versailles, arguing for the need for transformation of mental health care through epistemic humility

3 Umpires: 1)"There are balls & strikes & I call them as they are" (Realist) 2)"There are balls & strikes & I call them as I see them" (Constructivist) 3)No balls & no strikes til I call them" (Solopsist) Fun paper: DSM-III hoped to be 1, but psych "reality" is way too complex.

Labeling individuals with psychiatric diagnoses can yield unintended consequences, stemming from the personal and societal connotations associated with these labels. Transparency about the hypothetical nature of diagnoses is important: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39052407/