Facial expression changes track depression severity better than standard assessments. nature study showed that in severely depressed patients treated with DBS, facial dynamic or brain activity can forecast relapse or remission by up to 5 weeks in advance, compared to

Mark Atoni Jack W. Murbach, M.D. Not a huge fan of Laing, but to each their own! I think he tended to romanticize schizophrenia and find Arieti's criticism of him in Interpretation of Schizophrenia a total refutation of his ideas.

Mark Atoni Mark L. Ruffalo Jack W. Murbach, M.D. Beyond lucky indeed, Laing and colleagues in The Philadelphia Association (London) combined erudition with compassion in a way I have not experienced elsewhere or since (for me that was 1974 to 1990).

wow can you change your perception at will on this?

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

“Average expectable” countertransference responses to patients with Cluster B personality disorders (from today’s lecture) (primary sources: Betan et al 2006, Colli et al 2014, in American Journal of Psychiatry)

Psychodynamic equaled Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in new randomized controlled trial of #depression (n=100): pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39934737 Indeed, psychodynamic therapy also worked in a RCT of treatment resistant depression.

Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 Nature Medicine

Mountain Village after Storm, from Eight Famous Sights of the Xiao River and the Xiang River by Yokoyama Taikan, 1912

Bird on a Plum Tree, by Nagasawa Rosetsu, 18th century

I was asked by a few people to share the syllabus for my PGY-4 psychotherapy seminar. Here it is.

Freud on classification, from the introduction to Salman Akhtar's (1992) book Broken Structures.

Interested in clinical research on psychoanalysis? Does psychoanalytic therapy work (hint yes)? Here's a fantastic biblio from the Neuropsychoanalysis Association Mark Solms neuropsychoanalysis npsa-association.org/education-trai… #psychoanalysis #neuropsychoanalysis #psychotherapy

ChatGPT has proven Jacques-Alain Miller and co. right. Much of the hysteria and obsessionality you see online is from subjects who may be more properly positioned in “ordinary psychosis.” It doesn’t take as much as it used to, to make one’s psychosis apparent and obvious to all.

In this series of articles by Dr. Alexander Berzin, the Buddha’s teaching on the twelve links of dependent arising becomes a practical guide for breaking free from our habitual patterns. Whether or not we believe in rebirth, this ancient framework helps us understand why we

fun write up about our recent work on the limits of mental simulation: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… (original paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146…)

Squirrel, by Hirafuku Hyakusui, late 19th-early 20th century

Becoming and Dissolution ~ Mahasi Sayadaw justdharma.org/becoming-and-d… #MahasiSayadaw #impermanence #meditator #mirage

Read along with my Intro to Psychotherapy students!